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I think you’re right about the first part but every medium has its junk and scams including scientific journals and books. Personally, I’ve found business podca
by redeux 2y ago
I think you’re right about the first part but every medium has its junk and scams including scientific journals and books. Personally, I’ve found business podcasts engage almost exclusively in mythology and hero worship.
- PaulHoule 2y agoWell there was that time my evil twin came out because I read a bad book... But really any kind of literature has problems with hero worship which in turn comes out of a kind of survivorship bias. There's almost nothing you can learn from studying Apple that applies to your business so the cult of Steve Jobs is basically pointless. (e.g. Jobs completely called the 1980s wrong because he had no idea how slow progress was going to be in the microcomputer space... Had he skipped the /// and Mac and shipped the //gs a year or two earlier they could have avoided at least one of their near death experiences [1] and had a straighter path to where they wound up) [1] Choosing Motorola in retrospect was a choice between certain death and a near death experience but that's only clear in hindsight where we know Motorola took down almost all the opposition to the PC