Assuming that being overly polished people triggers smart people’s bullshit filters.
Therefore the truly smart person’s approach to bullshit is to be woefully unprepared and completely unpolished.
Coming soon to a bookstore near you: how to present like Elon Musk.
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Caring about smart people’s opinion is overrated—you’re more effective if you focus on the median user/voter/investor. Significantly easier task.
Being slick can get you far even with smart people: notice how confident & successful Gladwell et al are among the “intelligentsia”
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‘The Best and the Brightest’ is the history of very polished and credentialed people impressing, and then BSing the country into disaster.
Highly recommend it - small & massive failures of decision-making & policy; shoddy strategy; group-think; careerism; conformity & much more.
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Yes. It’s amazing how the author made bureaucratic turf wars and wonkish policy-making into a page turner.
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