Lennart HanninkApr 19, 2025
JA Westenberg
We've created a society where being confidently wrong pays better than being cautiously right. Is it any wonder we're drowning in bullshit merchants?
Apr 19, 2025 at 2:53pmPubler
Show threadBit_formApr 19, 2025

@Daojoan

There's a really good few chapters about it in Doppelganger, Naomi Klein's new book. I've been slowly getting through it, and a really good read.

Show threadPhilosiaApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan A new world order based on love can be created by Woman leaders in this world, Since love is natural for them.
I suggest you to read this book and introspect about how much the world has changed in this direction? So that together we can decide further about possible ways to align with this vision or modified vision as per new circumstances.
Social media is like commune he suggested. Open source, Fediverse are new world government in the making. 4B and woman do.
https://oshofriends.com/golden_future
Show threadRMS06510Apr 19, 2025
@Daojoan all of which was begun & promoted by soi-disant 'prestige' media
Show threadGarth CummingsApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

Why are so few women in management positions? The popular explanations range from women just aren’t capable of being leaders to women just don’t want to be leaders. According to the author, however, the absence of women in leadership roles has less to do with women themselves and more to do with how we interpret leadership traits. Confidence – a trait more associated with men – is often misinterpreted as competence. As a result, charismatic, but incompetent men have fewer barriers to reach the top than women. Individuals in positions to promote and hire managers should think more critically about what seems like a leadership trait versus what is an actual leadership trait. They will find that arrogance and overconfidence – the characteristics that get men into management positions – are also the characteristics that cause poor performance.

Harvard Business Review
Show threadStargeezer SmithApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan
I remember when Bill Clinton said Americans prefer strong and wrong to weak and right.
Show threadToni AittoniemiApr 19, 2025

@Daojoan I think this is a fault in the human condition tbh.

And us not ready to recognise it is another.

We seek comfort in closing our eyes from our own shortcomings!

Show threadPenumbraApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan No, but I don't think that's a feature unique to our contemporary society, neither in "the West", nor elsewhere. Humans tend to bestow material and other privileges upon people who are eager to tell them (loudly) what to think, do and believe. Whether their authority is based on wealth, a birthright or them being the emissary of spirits, god(s) etc. doesn't appear to be that important. The sciences and academia might be less susceptible to this but they're certainly not immune.
Show threadAurani Casts FireballApr 19, 2025

@Daojoan two jobs ago, I admitted to a client I wasn't an expert in Shopify, while trying to provide support.

That resulted in being yelled at by two of our lawyers; a sales Rep; my boss; my boss's boss; and my boss's boss's boss.

Yet the sales Rep (the one that yelled at me) that had literally lied directly to the client's face about us having a dedicated Shopify team — to secure the contract — got protected.

Show threadBG McKay (Brian) 🇨🇦Apr 19, 2025
@Aurani @Daojoan Sales usually gets a pass after selling something the company can't really provide.
Show threadQuiouApr 20, 2025
@Aurani @Daojoan A warm welcome to corporate world !
Show threadPēteris KrišjānisApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan I have thought about it. I feel something broke when people said "your opinion matters". Which was trying to widen audience. Well, certain groups that never doubted themselves about their murderous, greedy or both intent poisoned whole thing.
It should have ended with the first attempt to claim that not liking black people is *acceptable* opinion.
Show threadKailas IdavanmuzhiApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan Whats more concerning is that people are unwilling to see things from a different perspective..
Show threadHoward CohenApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan We've created a society where there are few disincentives to lie except in a few narrow cases like being in court or being deposed. There is no penalty for government representatives and elected officials who lie. What do we expect to happen when lying isn't illegal in office?!
Show threadwilliam.maggosApr 19, 2025

@Daojoan

via social media algos, ad payment models and shitty civic/media educations.

Show threadMontessori Space Programme 🛸Apr 19, 2025
@Daojoan This. A million times this.
Show threadCedar Fen Farm Cedar Fen FarmApr 19, 2025

@Daojoan

Maybe we should bring back analytical inteligence and drop the emphasis on getting along since emotional intelligence has come to mean making your associates happy in order to avoid being fired.

Show threadBilly SmithApr 19, 2025

@Daojoan

This has always been a problem.

Show threadHarrisonFormryApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan It’s wild how loud confidence gets rewarded, even when it’s built on nothing. Meanwhile, people who actually know their stuff are out here second-guessing every word. No wonder the noise is winning.
Show threadJens ElbækApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan Stupid people are confident and intelligent people are cautious.
Show threadclewApr 19, 2025
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst. Are full of passionate intensity." !!@jenselbaek @Daojoan
Show threadJens ElbækApr 19, 2025
@clew @Daojoan Science: It is currently our best theory.
Religion: It is just a theory, we know!
Show threadPrincess UnikittyApr 19, 2025
@Daojoan
The MBA dumbasses are ascendant, the tech industry awash with junk.
Show threadBoyd Stephen Smith Jr.Apr 20, 2025

@Daojoan Well, confidence has been interpreted as competence for longer than I've been alive and I'm not exactly a young 'un.

IIRC, it's a very common cognitive bias even in non-western societies, but maybe I'm just comforting myself.

Show threadBradley M. KuhnApr 20, 2025

The operative phrase there is “pays better”. Capitalism as a moral compass puts truth aside. As Steve Forbes unabashedly said when he ran for POTUS (which, ironically, everyone thought was a joke back then): “We should follow the golden rule; the person with the gold makes the rules”. Now, we live it.

Hundreds of years from now, whatever social structure comes next will look back on capitalism as we today look back at feudalism — with horror & saying “how did people live that way for so long”?

Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Apr 20, 2025
@Daojoan Good news! We now have machines that can be confidently wrong, so we can replace all of the confidently wrong people!
Show threadgaryApr 20, 2025
@Daojoan everything is right but you need reliable sources
Show threadKevin AshworthApr 20, 2025
@Daojoan Yes, but I wonder if this has not always been true. Hmm. Which societies are counter examples? Which societies have dealt with it in ways we could adopt?