"Flimsily-founded grift psychology" is par for the course in large institutions. Plenty of companies have what I call "mandatory psychobabble training", in whic

"Flimsily-founded grift psychology" is par for the course in large institutions. Plenty of companies have what I call "mandatory psychobabble training", in which unproven or discredited psychological theories, many of those from or closely wedded to the human potential movement of the 1970s, are presented as truth to employees, who are then forced to evaluate themselves or each other according to bullshit criteria and then come up with action plans to take advantage of their new psycho-identity. Myers-Briggs, DISC, everything has been tried. It's all malarkey and a waste of people's precious time and oxygen. But if you want to succeed in the corporate world, as Leah Remini's mother told her when she read the OT III materials in Scientology, "you don't have to believe in it, you just have to do it." Sigh. Something always creeped me out about Satya, especially when he hit the interview circuit after the first Recall drop. With Ballmer, at least you knew what he was just by looking at him. He was fantastic at one thing: being Bill's bulldog. Everything he did was continuing Bill's initiatives because he sincerely believed in them. The Ballmer Strategy was "Windows, Windows, Windows" (yes, and "developers, developers, developers"). He believed that if you put Windows on a thing or made it require Windows, developers would come because they loved Windows. But Windows was popular because it was on every PC, because of Bill's aggressive OEM licensing strategy, not because of intrinsic properties of Windows itself. Satya is... different. He's like that smiling guy from the first Deadpool movie. He will get you to commit to things with serious bite-you-in-the-ass-later properties, with a smile on his face, whether it be Recall or this "growth mindset" stuff.