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Any individual person or team is not special. Completely contradictory to my personal experience as well as to my observations in society. In my personal life, I've known a few special people who are smart enough to be visionaries with acceptably unique visions in their fields. They inspired and drove others around them and produced successful enterprises while our competitors floundered. Without them, we would have…
> Completely contradictory to my personal experience as well as to my observations in society. Irrelevant. These observations are coloured by selection bias. > successful enterprises while our competitors floundered What about all the visionaries that failed? What about the non-visionaries that succeeded? > Without them, we would have been mediocre like our competitors. Presumption that competitors would not have don…
I guess it shouldn't really matter since someone else equivalent to both of us will step in to continue it. I mean, if Albert Einstein is easily replaceable as you said, you and I can't be important for the continuation of anything.