Tobi Lütke: belief

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…It may be harder to monitor. What other systems do you have for getting good information out of meetings? Out of meetings? I grew up as an outsider — as in, I have an outsider mindset, which is hard to argue from first principles at this point — in a small town in Germany that was super not interested in computing. I learned all sorts of skills for observing people doing interesting things from afar. My lifeline back in those days was getting a copy of the back archives of the Linux kernel mailing list and so on. This is how I learned C programming and so on. I grew up as an observer on information. That’s what I do just for fun a lot. Also, that means I grew up on the internet, which is good and bad. One of my ways to get a lot out of meetings often involves saying high-conviction, incorrect things, and just waiting and seeing everyone wanting to correct me. It’s a more efficient way of — It’s like Twitter. If you want to learn something, you say something —…

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