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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

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Dec 10, 2020

This is a remarkably thought provoking thread.

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Dec 10, 2020

Every brilliant jerk is trying to use their brilliance (which they have control over via study, practice, etc...) to offset their jerkiness (which they have no control over, childhood wounds, etc...) twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/…

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Possible corollary 1: if you find an incompetent person in a company, odds are good that they’re nicely incompetent, because if they were an asshole they would have already been fired.

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Cedric Chin

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Dec 10, 2020

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Possible corollary 2: If you find someone who’s nasty AND incompetent, there’s likely something political that’s keeping them around.

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