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Had to deal with some of these people during labor unrest at a factory that turned violent. Very disconnected people. Narrow knowledge and intelligence. Wealth
by pols45 1y ago
Had to deal with some of these people during labor unrest at a factory that turned violent. Very disconnected people. Narrow knowledge and intelligence. Wealth isolates and prevents a maturation process. They have no time to mature. And when dealing with unpredictable complex, dynamic systems, if you are not ready or had practice, you are naturally going to feel a need to run in the opposite direction when shit hits the fan around you constantly.
Their success lies in avoiding anything unpredictable, and all the systems and processes they build leverage that kind of thinking. They call it Efficiency and Optimization. So its very narrow success.
If you have met people who have had to deal with unpredictability like financial crisis, epidemics, riots, war etc where problems just can't be handed of to Lawyers, PR and HR you see a very different breed from your avg tech leader.
So focusing on them is like focusing on sheltered circus animals sitting inside a disconnected popular circus tent, and what they think about what's happening outside the tent in the jungle.