(2012-12-08) Rao Should You Drink The Koolaid

Venkatesh Rao wonders whether you should drink the Kool Aid.

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If the odds of making it (A-List) are so completely awful, why do people still try?

Usual answer: Passion + True Belief.

Are the True Believer-s really just the ClueLess? (Gervais Principle)

Silicon Valley mapping: founder as ClueLess, option-wishing employees as Los Er-s, VC as Sociopath. Led to 2012-09-04-RaoEntrepreneursAreTheNewLabor

Persians consider every decision twice: once while Drunk, once Sober.

All Progress depends on the unreasonable (Drunk) man.

Grit = Unwavering Purpose = Un Falsifiable (Falsifiability) Mission

Can True Grit be scaled?

Kool Aid = Cognitive Capture: Passion is Sac Red.

Hashishin

Myers Briggs types mapped to roles (Archetype-s) in the Start Up Scene (slide41)