Re:How to Think for Yourself
by alisonkisk on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:01AM
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> MBAs are really just that vacuous
You got it. There's some technical information for, you know, administering business, like doing CFO and COO, stuff but the main purpose for "famous" MBAs is to make friends you can do deals with.
"the main purpose for "famous" MBAs is to make friends you can do deals with"
Well, that and most companies are willing to pay you much more and put you much higher up on the totem pole if you've got an MBA.
Somewhat more charitably, I think he’s writing about very basic things, which a different skill than writing about new and exciting things. Such essays are more useful to some people than others.
PG has wrote some really great essays (the Submarine Article, anyone?). I've read all of them, some of them many times. But if I'm being completely honest, lately it feels like he's writing to write instead of writing because he has something genuinely new and insightful to say.
PG does have a good, prescriptive insight here: you should constantly question what the truth is in a manner of detached concern. You could more concisely call it dispassionate skepticism.
But take away all the dressing about conventionality and thinking in ways others don't, and drill down into that one idea. That would be a great essay.