Fascinating - I just listened to Rufus Fears' lecture on Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison before opening HN. Personally, I find Bonhoeffer's premises are easily accepted - 1) stupidity is not an intellectual…
Flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets can be done by literally anyone. On the other hand, the demand for people who can code like you remains high. This is the reason why investment bankers make bank. Granted, many of…
Took a quick look at the case. I'm guessing some corp lawyer, maybe even general counsel, didn't have enough "real work" to do and needed to make a name for himself. Then it became a giant d* measuring contest. Source:…
I have a different take on this: corporate research labs died because we aggressively clamped down on monopolies. When you don't have a monopoly, the investor mindset is that the company should be laser-focused on "core…
Fascinating - I just listened to Rufus Fears' lecture on Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison before opening HN. Personally, I find Bonhoeffer's premises are easily accepted - 1) stupidity is not an intellectual…
Flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets can be done by literally anyone. On the other hand, the demand for people who can code like you remains high. This is the reason why investment bankers make bank. Granted, many of…
Took a quick look at the case. I'm guessing some corp lawyer, maybe even general counsel, didn't have enough "real work" to do and needed to make a name for himself. Then it became a giant d* measuring contest. Source:…
I have a different take on this: corporate research labs died because we aggressively clamped down on monopolies. When you don't have a monopoly, the investor mindset is that the company should be laser-focused on "core…