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An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project

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Re: An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project

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I believe this is the wrong way to think about this. Character flaws are often associated with certain effective traits, but are not chained to them. In your example, one can be vocal, biased-twoards-action, and low-bullshit, while also giving credit where credit is due. I think it’s far from obvious that Jobs would have been a less effective leader if he had addressed his character shortcomings. I similarly feel the…

Yeah, for some reason we as a society really dig the whole "good with the bad", "beauty and the beast" style narrative. As if people can't be that good without also being that bad. It's an extremely old meme, and it will take a long long time to die.

Luckily we have noble actors like yourself to prove that an unblemished character is possible!

Re: An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project

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> "You'd have to sit in a meeting with Bill, and he's frighteningly brilliant. People throw around the word 'genius' all the time, and the way people say 'genius' is not accurate if you've met somebody who is a genius – somebody who, when you meet them, it seems like aliens are whispering in their ear because there's no way they could know these things otherwise. This is a different kind of a thing, and Bill's like t…

Bill Gates' "brilliance' was his extreme paranoia - always looking for a disruptor to his rent-seeking monopolies that pretty much stifled most creativity in the PC space for the better part of two decades. But he's certainly no genius. Geniuses leave behind a creative, ground-breaking legacy. Gates only legacy was to strangle that sort of creativity. So he's an anti-genius.
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