It is the other side of the filter that was used to select them through a dozen of layers of competitive management (or, in the case of pure founders - through several DDs, investment rounds cofounder struggles, not to mention the market competition).
I too have observed this attitude from tech managers.
Sociopaths will exist, in a Nash equilibrium with their population, just because the genetical building blocks for reemergence of this phenotype continue to float in the general population. Indeed, if one looks for it, one finds that "dark-triad" personality is found to be sexually appealing. What else needs to be said about us?
... The individuals in question will be drawn to zero sum struggles of the power process, just because they are well equipped to navigate this landscape.
The meager expected improvement of having my personal life less influenced by this human type was enough for me to avoid immigrating to the USA and focus on the EU instead. Yes, it is poorer, but the socially-democratic political sensibility doesn't allow american management types to bloom in their full capacity.
At some point of intensity, the zero sum struggle grinds everything into the low-trust cesspool. It is a force of nature to be acknowledged.
I too have observed this attitude from tech managers.
Sociopaths will exist, in a Nash equilibrium with their population, just because the genetical building blocks for reemergence of this phenotype continue to float in the general population. Indeed, if one looks for it, one finds that "dark-triad" personality is found to be sexually appealing. What else needs to be said about us?
... The individuals in question will be drawn to zero sum struggles of the power process, just because they are well equipped to navigate this landscape.
The meager expected improvement of having my personal life less influenced by this human type was enough for me to avoid immigrating to the USA and focus on the EU instead. Yes, it is poorer, but the socially-democratic political sensibility doesn't allow american management types to bloom in their full capacity.
At some point of intensity, the zero sum struggle grinds everything into the low-trust cesspool. It is a force of nature to be acknowledged.