PG is great. What would we do without him? We want a PG in the arena at all times.
This article doesn't hit the mark. Startup people don't listen, because they're trying to create something new, that nobody else understands (or people who understand are a 'parallel thought threat' like Newton and Liebniz). Counter-intuitivity is in the ballpark, but not quite "it".
Really what an inventor/entrepreneur does is to specialize in a direction or idea no-one else gets or no-one else will understand the way to make it, until it's in MVP or prototype stage. How can that person slam the breaks on the train and start doing rational, sensible things that could extinguish the light of discovery/creation? Not saying that's a good thing, it's what it is.
There's a weird trend online to keep blaming school for poor thinking. It's a cool rhetorical device. Doesn't work for me though. I went to a good school that challenged me to open my mind and is also the basis for faith and way of thinking that gets me to discovery. The patterns I see that others don't, is partially because I hold a tiny candle flame for an older way of thinking that is sorely needed in some spaces.
There's also a quiet truth that there's now two truths. One truth for the established and comfortable, another truth for the man battling for his soul's light. They point mostly in different directions and they don't understand each other so much. It's physically painful to try and synthesize those two truths into one.
More transparency in communication is the way to go. Everyone needs to admit only the old wisdom and knowledge is firm and stable. The more we can admit we don't know what's going on as we go forward, the more we can relate... my probably-wrong 0.02c