Makes a lot of sense to be honest. If ideas aren't held too dearly you'll be able to weed out the bad ones. A lot of people (myself included) have a certain irrational loss aversion when it comes to ideas. I'm sure one could find plenty of articles on this on LessWrong.
Some advice from Jeff Bezos
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#12Being right a lot is a core value of that Amazon requires in it's leaders. The rest of the list is available here: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?ie=UTF8&...
I hadn't seen this. Great list. I especially like "As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time."
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#13And the sad thing is that society often punishes people who change their minds or "flip-flop". See politics.
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#14Good advice but I'm curious about: "Jason Fried is the fastest white man you'll ever meet." Is Jason actually really fast and/or was he an athlete at a prior time?
That stood out to me too... is there an inside joke? What's the white have to do with it?
Seems like a throwaway joke to me; nothing to over-analyze.
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#15And the sad thing is that society often punishes people who change their minds or "flip-flop". See politics.
Flip-flopping in politics is often an insincere change of position for the purpose of chasing votes.
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#16I too am frequently right, after being wrong a bunch of times.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
That stood out to me too... is there an inside joke? What's the white have to do with it?
Seems like a throwaway joke to me; nothing to over-analyze.
Well, Most Asians have awesome APM or are great at table tennis. Black people tend to be great at running really fast. It makes sense doesn't it?:)
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#18And the sad thing is that society often punishes people who change their minds or "flip-flop". See politics.
Flip-flopping in politics is often an insincere change of position for the purpose of chasing votes.
That's true, except the definition is elastic in politics. A candidate who thought a certain way at 18 years old is expected to still think the same way - on all opinions - at 45, which is absolutely ludicrous.
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#19Can't believe it. You had Bezos for 2 hours and this is all you bother to share with us?
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#20And the sad thing is that society often punishes people who change their minds or "flip-flop". See politics.
If you're only changing what you're saying merely to temporarily win your audience's mindshare, it doesn't matter if you're a smarmy CEO, politician, lawyer, or programmer.
You can honestly change your opinion and point of view, and you can also lie. Changing your opinion and point of view is not seen as negative, but deception is generally frowned upon to the point of societies making fraud a higher level crime (see Perjury).