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Yes, I cannot believe smart people of that caliber is sending too much Noise.

It reminds me of my friend at a Mensa meeting where they cannot agree at basic organization points like in a department consortium.



> Yes, I cannot believe smart people of that caliber is sending too much Noise.

Being smart and/or being a great researcher does not mean that the respective person is a good "politician". Quite some great researchers are bad at company politics, and quite some people who do great research leave academia because they became crushed by academic politics.


Managing a large org requires a lot of mundane techniques, and probably a personal-brand manager and personal advisers.

It’s extremely boring and mundane and political and insulting to anyone’s humanity. People who haven’t dedicated their life to economics, such as researchers and idealists, will have a hard time.


different kinds of smarts. Ilya is allegedly a brilliant scientist. Doesn't make him a brilliant business person automatically


As illustrated in Breaking Bad when they carry a barrel instead of rolling it.

Book smarts versus street smarts.


Ha I remember joining that when I was 16, I just wanted the card. They gave a sub to the magazine and it was just people talking about what it was like to be in Mensa.

It felt the same as certain big German supermarket chain that publishes it's own internal magazine with articles from employees, company updates etc


Are you talking about Aldi's? Cause if so maybe they got something figured out, their store locations that I've been in the states are great (only exposure to them though). Only check out I've seen where the employees have chairs


Their brother , but probably the same thing. Chairs at checkouts are the norm here though. Hard place to work but they beat all the others on pay.




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