Honestly, I am generally a big fan of pg, and many/most of his points I agree with. But every time he puts out a new blog post I feel like I'm now reflexively starting with an eye roll: "OK, what quality
that pg has in spades has he decided to laud now as the one thing that's super important for success, happiness and societal progress?"
It's not that I really disagree with him that much, but for a man who is obviously very smart, and who can come up with lots of new ideas, I find his blog posts shockingly lacking in introspection. It's basically all the qualities that are needed to build a startup are the most important qualities for society at large. What I never see is thought processes along the lines of "Gee, how can my world view be colored by my unique experiences, and how might I think differently if I had a different upbringing or experiences contrary to the ones that actually occurred?"
As another commenter mentioned, so many of pg's posts seem so concerned with "sorting" people: you're smart or not, you've got lots of new ideas or you don't. And it's not hard to surmise why he has this worldview: literally his whole job is to sort through people pitching to find the winners from the losers.
But I wish he would just step back once and think a little more broadly about some contrarian ideas that don't just totally support his vision of success in the world.
It's not that I really disagree with him that much, but for a man who is obviously very smart, and who can come up with lots of new ideas, I find his blog posts shockingly lacking in introspection. It's basically all the qualities that are needed to build a startup are the most important qualities for society at large. What I never see is thought processes along the lines of "Gee, how can my world view be colored by my unique experiences, and how might I think differently if I had a different upbringing or experiences contrary to the ones that actually occurred?"
As another commenter mentioned, so many of pg's posts seem so concerned with "sorting" people: you're smart or not, you've got lots of new ideas or you don't. And it's not hard to surmise why he has this worldview: literally his whole job is to sort through people pitching to find the winners from the losers.
But I wish he would just step back once and think a little more broadly about some contrarian ideas that don't just totally support his vision of success in the world.