Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]

Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by maxxxxx on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:14PM (#19749614)

You need to find the right balance between bullshitting and delivering . Elon Musk or Steve Jobs are first class bullshitters but they also back it up quite often (not always though).

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by iMarv on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:48PM (#19749972)

Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are and were highly intelligent people. For them it is less about bullshitting but more about their dreams and goals.

I do not believe Elon Musk is bullshitting when giving timeframes, he knows what is possible technically, but fails to predict how long it takes to deliver

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by Veen on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:13PM (#19750267)

I don’t think there is any inverse relationship between intelligence and a tendency to bullshit. There are smart bullshitters and stupid ones. The stupid ones tend to be obvious. The very smart ones end up running countries and corporations.

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by mgkimsal on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:17PM (#19749639)

and sometimes people just think you're bullshitting because they have no idea that you can actually deliver (or that anyone can deliver) but you know that you can (and perhaps even have done so).

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