https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-secret-genius
"If he’s super rich, he must be a super genius.
That conclusion is a cognitive mistake many continue to make when they
encounter a seemingly incongruous state of affairs, such as Elon Musk, the
world’s richest man, behaving like an irrational idiot. And yet, behave like an
idiot he does, day after day, a public jester who can buy the world’s most
expensive jewels or light $44 billion on fire, but hasn’t yet found a shop to
sell him self-awareness or common sense.
Elon Musk is part of a small class of extremely rich people who are rich partly
because they’re effective at making others think they’re Secret Geniuses.
Other alleged Secret Geniuses are constantly in the news these days: Elizabeth
Holmes of Theranos (heading to prison); Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX (probably
heading to prison); Adam Neumann of WeWork (who produced a spectacular
financial collapse); and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (who has, so far, poured $30
billion into a metaverse that looks like a PlayStation 2 game from 2001)."
Via Kenny Chaffin, who wrote "True geniuses are humble. Those who fashion
themselves as Secret Geniuses are not."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
