Hillary Clinton, Adam Grant and Stephen Fry Walk Into a Bar + Why does everyone want to be a product manager?
Conversations you must engage with this week
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The most interesting conversations this week.
Hillary Clinton
An epidemic of loneliness is fueling violence and division—and could threaten our democracy itself, Hillary Clinton argues.
Adam Grant
It turns out that women who use weak language when they ask for raises are more likely to get them. Adam Grant sheds light as to why.
Stephen Fry
On political correctness and engaging gracefully with ideas
Why does everyone want to be a product manager?
There is always this hot new job and that hot new sector. Sometimes it is crypto, sometimes D2C, and then there is of course some edtech.
Investor Nasim Taleb doesn’t think highly of journalists and newspapers. He says:
“I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs. Train your reasoning abilities to control your decisions; nudge System 1 (the heuristic or experiential system) out of the important ones. Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical. This insulation from the toxicity of the world will have an additional benefit: it will improve your well-being.”
It seems like many (NOT ALL) venture capitalists are the tabloid journalists of today. Parody account VC brags tweets:
We don’t have much to add here except remind people of philosopher Rene Girard’s mimetic theory.