It's hard to trust that this is from a real "A-player" when it throws so many of my "not an A-Player but a genial bullshitter" flags.
- Poorly written and communicated, with faux-profound single word paragraphs
- 'Insights' that would look more at home on a wall decal ("It’s true that I resisted the negativity, escaped, and embraced the positivity and rode it to its potential.")
- "I used to think this way, before I became enlightened" style statements showing complete lack of self-awareness
- Article about a vague concept without defining any of the behaviours that go along with that concept
- Reference to 2x2 matrices (iron law of management theory: all of human behaviour can be collapsed into four quadrants)
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- His own signature at the end of the post
Is there anything in his background that separates this from the low-grade shlock that pollutes my Medium feed on a daily basis?
- Poorly written and communicated, with faux-profound single word paragraphs
- 'Insights' that would look more at home on a wall decal ("It’s true that I resisted the negativity, escaped, and embraced the positivity and rode it to its potential.")
- "I used to think this way, before I became enlightened" style statements showing complete lack of self-awareness
- Article about a vague concept without defining any of the behaviours that go along with that concept
- Reference to 2x2 matrices (iron law of management theory: all of human behaviour can be collapsed into four quadrants)
- Sign up for my newsletter modal
- His own signature at the end of the post
Is there anything in his background that separates this from the low-grade shlock that pollutes my Medium feed on a daily basis?