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 ZebZ on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:22PM (#19750356)

When you are young, you think adults have it all figured out. When you become an adult yourself, you realize a good chunk of people are straight winging it and, in many cases, entire companies are winging it all together without fully realizing it.

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by PebblesRox on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:56PM (#19751380)

Reminds me of this Calvin and Hobbes: https://i.redd.it/5k0uft6n3bcz.jpg

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by koonsolo on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:46AM (#19755724)

I would like to add something to this:

If a person or a company is lucky in some way, they will credit it to their own competence, thinking they figured it out. I know I have done this several times in the past.

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by scruple on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:57PM (#19750773)

Also, you can start at a company where things are figured out and watch the "growth phases" introduce layer upon layer of smooth-talking, overly-confident bullshitters, and, before you know it, the entire company has gone from knowing what they're doing to entirely winging it. This is what frightens me the most, because it seems to be systemic and almost everyone that I talk to these days in tech is suffering through some phase of this problem.

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