1. I still have questions about the Theranos debacle. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/14/theranos-chief-executive-elizabeth-holmes-charged-with-massive-fraud/?utm_term=.202c20c12334 …
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This is LARGELY the most useful thing I learned how to do at Harvard as an aside. It is frankly what Harvard as an institution excels at. The names on that list are Stanford-centric, so I assume the same dynamic is as work.
And I would again emphasize that not-just-bad-guys do this. I don't know any other way to launch big things if you don't have the reputation yourself. But if the core turns out to be rotten, it looks shady.
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I think this is all plausible. But golly gee, I would have checked out something like this a little more carefully than they did, networking or not. Or maybe networking requires that suspension of critical thought. I went to a different kind of college.
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Silicon Valley does encourage a wishful thinking that is frequently *deliberately* uncritical, to avoid strangling ideas before they are fully born. You can see the argument for it, I guess. But yeah. Looks quite bad here!
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I had a boss like that once. You get a lot more garbage than good ideas that way.
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I'm a fan of Linus Pauling's "If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas" notion — but Pauling also acknowledged you had to ruthlessly weed out the bad ones, in search for the few good ones that lay within them.
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Yep. And not inflict the whole mess on your colleagues.
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