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I thought it was extremely strange that he posted so much religious stuff from official Intel accounts.

by wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago

KK7NIL 6mo ago
Source? I've only seen him post religious stuff on his personal social media.
- wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
  If you are the CEO of Intel then posting from your personal account is the same thing - you are the CEO - it's not private. This is just scratching the surface - his religious posts went on and on and on whilst he was Intel CEO. https://gizmodo.com/things-are-so-bad-at-intel-that-the-boss-is-posting-bible-verses-2000483248 https://gizmodo.com/things-are-so-bad-at-intel-that-the-boss... https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/intel-facing-tough-time-ceo-is-now-quoting-bible-on-twitter-2577045-2024-08-05 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/intel-facing... https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1hb1imh/former_intel_ceo_pat_gelsinger_calls_for_prayer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1hb1imh/former_intel... https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1891069258953576711 https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1891069258953576711 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1820503612591919375 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1820503612591919375 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1701081984943227367 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1701081984943227367 https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1820129317122080977 https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1820129317122080977
  - mort96 6mo ago
    This looks like a motte-and-bailey. Your original comment, the bailey: "he posted much religious stuff from official Intel accounts". This comment, the motte: "he posted much religious stuff". You could've just said, "I thought it was extremely strange that he posted so much religious stuff while CEO". That would've been a very defensible position. You didn't need the false part of posting from official Intel accounts. Or, if it was an honest mistake, you should've written something along the lines of: "Sorry, I misremembered, it was his personal accounts. But when you're a CEO, I don't think the distinction matters much; anything you post will be read as 'Intel's CEO says'".
newsclues 6mo ago
why is that the most important thing to comment about?
- wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
  Because religion should not mix with business. CEO's should be sufficiently self aware to understand that they should not be foisting their beliefs on the company and their employees and customers. Being unable to recognize that is a very bad tell about a persons judgement.
  - Zigurd 6mo ago
    Of all the openly religious people, Gelsinger did the least to mix business and religion. Whereas an irreligious person like Peter Thiel says some really wacky religious stuff.
    - natbennett 6mo ago
      Tim Cook is openly Christian and he has neither written a book about how “Jesus is his CEO” (and should be yours too) nor has he ever (to my knowledge) led his company in singing a hymn.
      - Zigurd 6mo ago
        I didn't know about the book, but I'm finding nothing at all to indicate that he's ever lead employees in singing hymns. At Intel his boss was a secular Jewish man, and so was his CFO. That leads me to doubt that it ever happened especially not at Intel. Based on my brief interactions with him, and my overall experience with Intel as a project partner at the time, I'd say he has exceptionally high integrity. I'd bet he didn't even have his books ghost written.
        WoodenChair 6mo ago
        He definitely didn't have the book ghostwritten. It does have advice on issues that go beyond faith. But I think it's much more useful as a guide to the faithful than the non-faithful. We interviewed him last year about the book: https://pnc.st/s/business-books/9720205c/the-juggling-act-with-pat-gelsinger https://pnc.st/s/business-books/9720205c/the-juggling-act-wi... He gets into many of the issues discussed in this thread: having faith while being a CEO and how to handle that.

I thought it was extremely strange that he posted so much religious stuff from official Intel accounts.

KK7NIL 6mo ago

Source? I've only seen him post religious stuff on his personal social media.

wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
If you are the CEO of Intel then posting from your personal account is the same thing - you are the CEO - it's not private. This is just scratching the surface - his religious posts went on and on and on whilst he was Intel CEO. https://gizmodo.com/things-are-so-bad-at-intel-that-the-boss-is-posting-bible-verses-2000483248 https://gizmodo.com/things-are-so-bad-at-intel-that-the-boss... https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/intel-facing-tough-time-ceo-is-now-quoting-bible-on-twitter-2577045-2024-08-05 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/intel-facing... https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1hb1imh/former_intel_ceo_pat_gelsinger_calls_for_prayer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/1hb1imh/former_intel... https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1891069258953576711 https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1891069258953576711 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1820503612591919375 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1820503612591919375 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1701081984943227367 https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1701081984943227367 https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1820129317122080977 https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1820129317122080977
- mort96 6mo ago
  This looks like a motte-and-bailey. Your original comment, the bailey: "he posted much religious stuff from official Intel accounts". This comment, the motte: "he posted much religious stuff". You could've just said, "I thought it was extremely strange that he posted so much religious stuff while CEO". That would've been a very defensible position. You didn't need the false part of posting from official Intel accounts. Or, if it was an honest mistake, you should've written something along the lines of: "Sorry, I misremembered, it was his personal accounts. But when you're a CEO, I don't think the distinction matters much; anything you post will be read as 'Intel's CEO says'".

newsclues 6mo ago

why is that the most important thing to comment about?

wewewedxfgdf 6mo ago
Because religion should not mix with business. CEO's should be sufficiently self aware to understand that they should not be foisting their beliefs on the company and their employees and customers. Being unable to recognize that is a very bad tell about a persons judgement.
- Zigurd 6mo ago
  Of all the openly religious people, Gelsinger did the least to mix business and religion. Whereas an irreligious person like Peter Thiel says some really wacky religious stuff.
  - natbennett 6mo ago
    Tim Cook is openly Christian and he has neither written a book about how “Jesus is his CEO” (and should be yours too) nor has he ever (to my knowledge) led his company in singing a hymn.
    - Zigurd 6mo ago
      I didn't know about the book, but I'm finding nothing at all to indicate that he's ever lead employees in singing hymns. At Intel his boss was a secular Jewish man, and so was his CFO. That leads me to doubt that it ever happened especially not at Intel. Based on my brief interactions with him, and my overall experience with Intel as a project partner at the time, I'd say he has exceptionally high integrity. I'd bet he didn't even have his books ghost written.
      - WoodenChair 6mo ago
        He definitely didn't have the book ghostwritten. It does have advice on issues that go beyond faith. But I think it's much more useful as a guide to the faithful than the non-faithful. We interviewed him last year about the book: https://pnc.st/s/business-books/9720205c/the-juggling-act-with-pat-gelsinger https://pnc.st/s/business-books/9720205c/the-juggling-act-wi... He gets into many of the issues discussed in this thread: having faith while being a CEO and how to handle that.