How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive (2016)
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#2Is this backed by research or is it just anecdotal evidence?
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#3I am happy to work at a tech company where your BS can be easily surfaced using pure logic. If you can't code and don't do good coding or designing then it does not give you enough leeway to BS.
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#4As an S-W character myself currently struggling to transform into the mythical W-S in academia, is there any simple ways to just focus and get work done? I find it almost impossible to focus on one thing for more than a few minutes.
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#5Ironically, this article also reeks of bullshit.
The massive characterization: the sloppy nerd (W-S), the consummate bullshitter (S-W), and the "rare" real talent (W+S). Which sets up the classic, "you're successful, so you must be a bullshitter" (because those S+Ws are sooo rare).
The "CB's" he's describing are so incredibly transparent, they might as well be strawmen.
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#6sheer bullshit.. this article..
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#7I am happy to work at a tech company where your BS can be easily surfaced using pure logic. If you can't code and don't do good coding or designing then it does not give you enough leeway to BS.
Yes, perhaps more than some other fields. However don't underestimate the number of decisions which must be made with less than adequate information and sometimes multiple outcomes can be chosen which are supported by available data. Also there are times when someone's experience can help them understand how a stream of data will change over time and they can use that to get ahead of the change rather than being purely reactive.
I'm not disagreeing with you entirely, just proposing that it isn't usually so black and white in our industry.
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#8Ironically, this article also reeks of bullshit. The massive characterization: the sloppy nerd (W-S), the consummate bullshitter (S-W), and the "rare" real talent (W+S). Which sets up the classic, "you're successful, so you must be a bullshitter" (because those S+Ws are sooo rare ). The "CB's" he's describing are so incredibly transparent, they might as well be strawmen.
> The "CB's" he's describing are so incredibly transparent, they might as well be strawmen.
Strawmen or not, I've worked for two. Those aren't fond memories.
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#9> Can you see a cow?
Looks like a blurred Japanese painting. I see 2 samurai, one standing on the left, one dead on the right (face down, you can see his hair). I can't explain the horn helmet the standing samurai is wearing, though.
> If you still can't see the cow, please search "visual intelligence cow" in Google images
Oh. A cow indeed. (It's head, facing the camera.)
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#10> Can you see a cow? Looks like a blurred Japanese painting. I see 2 samurai, one standing on the left, one dead on the right (face down, you can see his hair). I can't explain the horn helmet the standing samurai is wearing, though. > If you still can't see the cow, please search "visual intelligence cow" in Google images Oh. A cow indeed. (It's head, facing the camera.)
i had the same initial reaction as you