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I’m interpreting the submission as just what can be read on the page, but I still liked it. Brief and to the point.
That's only two ways to get paid, so it's either title is wrong or there's a missing part.
There's got to be a variant that is a 2x2 matrix of this: Lie to others, lie to yourself (spiral together; either fantastically poor or spectacularly rich) Lie to others, tell yourself the truth (manipulation, morally broke, but materially rich) Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth (integrity, barely scrape by) Tell others the truth, lie to yourself (be used by the system, usually end up poorly)
oh god it's the Rumsfeld quadrants for truth....
> "there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."
The fourth corner is unknown knowns, things that we don't know that we know. Bureaucracies have that one in spades.
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It pays to be suspicious of those who tell you you can’t make an honest living.
Huh, I've always been suspicious of folks claiming the opposite. For the downvoters, have you ever tried to explicitly map your externalities?
Is it me, or have HN submissions gotten shorter and shorter recently? At this rate, top-scoring articles will consist of a single word in a few years.
I've told this story before, but it's relevant. When I worked at BigCo [1], we were interviewing a candidate for a position. He was pretty good, and we were in the process of making him an offer, but he was asking for more money and trying to negotiate his salary higher. I don't have an issue with this, BigCo has plenty of money, but other people, including a manager, were complaining. They felt that this is a good j…
Some examples:
- Russians (or insert any other dictatorship trying to appear otherwise) faking "democratic" elections. Who are you kidding, yourselves? No one believes it. Just tell the west: to hell with your democracy. Like, I just don't see why they need to go though that charade that everybody can see through.
- A country where pretty everybody is stealing from each other, and they all know it, and are still trying to fake uprightness to each other. I guess most countries fit this scenario. Like, we all know what's going on. The world does not end if you come right out and say to the effect of, yeah, we steal from each other (if not in so direct a fashion). But for some weird reason, people seem to feel it is important that the elephant in the room remain unacknowledged.
- The world is a very shitty and harsh place, especially to those with seemingly little status. Injustice abounds. Stupidity and absurdity reigns. And yet, almost all of us are expected to put on a happy, confident, optimistic face. Those unable to keep all the horror in are labeled freaks, anti-social, maladjusted, etc. People that fail are labeled lazy, not driven, etc. And yet, we pretty much all know the truth, but we like to lie to each other.
It's hard to understand.
There's also good money to be made telling people what they already know, usually in the form of a report and/or powerpoint deck
if you can sell someone on a second report to verify the first you can make a lot of money too.
"a man with one watch always knows what time it is, a man with two watches is never quite sure"
There's also good money to be made telling people what they already know, usually in the form of a report and/or powerpoint deck
Ah, but you only tell them the things they already know and want to hear . That filter is crucial in any kind of advisory/consulting work. You're there to confirm biases, in 95% of the cases.
When I was a dev working with my business-oriented business partner, I had to get used to sitting in meetings where we promised the client the world having no idea if I could accomplish it or not. Made a lot more money than I could have on my own. "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'YES'!!"