Coaching is interesting. To advertise coaching as a service, doubly so. It's a real invitation to cringe. There's all sorts of selection bias & signalling going on. A man who says "I'm honest" invites questions. To say "you should turn to me for coaching" invites questions. https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1225423186583531520 …
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5/ ...and that's illustrative of the fact that while merit matters, marketing matters too (given two competitors with equal merit, the one with better marketing wins ...and "better" often means "invisible / unobtrusive" )
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6/ all of this ties into my thoughts on SV culture self improvement / growthhacking bro mindset. There are so many desperate strivers all trying to be Rich And Powerful And Smart, and the vast majority of them are Doing Coffee all around the Bay Area and Networking and Pitching
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7/ I don't really have a thesis statement for this. Maybe: "abjure Silicon Valley and all its works". Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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