[HN Gopher] Why do I feel like you need to be a sociopath to suc...
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Why do I feel like you need to be a sociopath to succeed?
I haven't been able to get this idea out of my mind that to be a
successful CEO, you need to be a sociopath. Somehow it feels like
decent people with decent products just don't make it.
Author : roznoshchik
Score : 12 points
Date : 2022-02-15 22:32 UTC (28 minutes ago)
| throwaway889900 wrote:
| It's time for me to tell you to read the Gervais Principle!
| gunfighthacksaw wrote:
| How do you cultivate sociopathy?
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| I took a personality disorder quiz and scored high on everything
| except the dark triad.
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| Because of that quiz score, I'm worried that my earning potential
| is not as high as it could be if I was otherwise a high
| functioning psychopath.
|
| I'm totally serious btw, any tips are appreciated.
| WalterGR wrote:
| I feel like I've seen a book called The 48 Laws of Power
| recommended frequently for that.
| cybarDOTlive wrote:
| Get out of your comfort zone. Seek out awkwardness, and
| anxiety, and revel in the uncomfortable. That's how you learn
| to not give a fuck. Do things that would bring you shame, grin
| and bare it. After awhile none of it applies anymore.
| cybarDOTlive wrote:
| You're probably right. "Decent, normal people", have had that
| competitiveness bred out of them. They are sheep, they follow the
| rules and watch the TV advertising. They get injected when
| authority figure in white dress tells them to get injected. Not
| exactly ripe for innovation, is it?
|
| The thing I can't get out of my head is, why are we keeping all
| these people around? They are so slow. Get out of my way already.
| fartboi wrote:
| I am le epic sociopath
| sbinthree wrote:
| Hot take but sociopathy is technically the compulsively violent
| one. People think it's "social psychopath" but sociopath implies
| physical violence. Psychopaths are what you're thinking of. Not
| always violent, but always charming.
| Graffur wrote:
| I am literally writing a pitch deck right now (just for fun). My
| solution statement includes stuff like "respecting the user - no
| tracking, no selling data, no dark patterns"... deep down I doubt
| any investor would even look at this and would laugh at the
| naivety.
|
| They would look at FB, Reddit and others and, naturally, want a
| piece of that pie.
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| Unfortunately, I think the better way to get funding would be to
| say:
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| * this is how we can capture as much data from the user as
| possible while convincing the user it is good for them
|
| * this is how we can sell it to the highest bidder
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| * this is how we can make the user an addict
| cosheaf wrote:
| Because that's the correct intuition. The contemporary world is
| not designed for sane people. All the systems around us are
| designed to alienate people from each other with artificial
| intermediators like money, status, fame, and just generally
| useless toys and gadgets. To succeed in such a world you have to
| have sociopathic tendencies. You have to value material goods and
| possessions over people which is kinda insane when you really
| think about it.
|
| There is an interesting interview with Brit Marling addressing
| some of these points about her time working at a bank (Goldman
| Sachs):
| https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brit+marling+goldman+sachs&t=ffab&....
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