I never met Steve Jobs and I probably wouldn’t notice Zuckerberg if he was killing a goat next to me, but word on the street is they were/are total fucking pricks. Musk is openly an asshole. Bezos is calculated to earn over $300 a second, 24 hours a day – but wouldn’t give his warehouse workers healthcare and adequate bathroom…
Category: Communication
Rule 8: A Pro doesn’t show anger
You are going to get angry. In fact, the longer you stay at a company, the angrier you will get (a.k.a. the “Camelback Effect”, see below). Unfortunately, anger is the enemy of almost every other rule. So you must either actively eliminate your emotions OR actively fight against expressing your emotions in any discernible way. Unless you…
Rule 4: When the conversation turns to religion, politics or sex, a Pro changes the subject to sports
I don’t care if you are a married to the Dalai Lama, ran Obama’s campaign website and had Thanksgiving dinner with your cousin Jenna Jameson. I don’t care how fantastically novel your ideas are for campaign finance reform, what the Catholic church needs to do to become popular again, or your explanation on why all…