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I dislike this sort of word play because it doesn't communicate information to anybody except people who already have the experience to translate it in some way
by growingkittens 3y ago
I dislike this sort of word play because it doesn't communicate information to anybody except people who already have the experience to translate it in some way. Even then, it's so generic that there's a spectrum of possible interpretations.
- srcnkcl 3y agoIt is so generic it means nothing to me.
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoThere's certainly some kind of tendency among a certain swathe of startup founders and others in business, who somehow fancy themselves to be philosophers or gurus because they've gone through what's been construed as a "startup rite of passage" and have attained some kind of apotheosis. It's essentially a species of the American mythology of "success".
- Sakos 3y agoI first thought it was comparing the program Everything with an alternative named Anything. Came away disappointed.
- corry 3y agoAgreed! It can be True and Trite at the same time. I've lived the startup CEO journey from 0 to successful exit, and "You have to care about everything more than anything" is almost poetic in terms of summarizing the constant chaos and battering you take mentally. Now, would that have made sense or been useful to me during the early stages? Not at all. It has almost no educational value. It reminds me of some famous quote that goes like "Life consists of learning profound lessons that appear trite from the outset... until you actually live and learn them."
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoHaving never been a CEO I understood both quotes perfectly fine.