90% of “success” seems to be just surviving long enough above a threshold of “terminally embarrassing”
The other 10% is judicious editing of the story ex-post
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I feel slightly dubious. Some of the most successful people I’ve seen seem to be terminally embarrassing constantly
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This squarely applies to the mantra of inconsequentials biding “adequate sufficiency” at multinational corporations.
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Interesting article on hacker news related to that 10% about Walmart’s forward-facing story v how they really got started




