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Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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1798 points jerryX | 1 comments | 30 Nov 18 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CalChris ◴[30 Nov 18 06:40 UTC] No.18567228[source]▶
Regina Dugan is a former head of DARPA as well as ATAP. She has an impressive resume. Why would she do something like this? For a not particularly important patent, LED popup books? It seems bizarre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan

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ilaksh ◴[30 Nov 18 09:46 UTC] No.18567933[source]▶
People don't get to the top by being ethical. They get to the top of the org chart by playing politics. Many of them are practically psychopaths.
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speedplane ◴[30 Nov 18 10:18 UTC] No.18568054[source]▶
The good news is that very few people are at the top. Most are in the middle, and it's entirely possible to be ethical and in a good middling position.
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HelloNurse ◴[30 Nov 18 11:15 UTC] No.18568266[source]▶
The psychopaths at the top are a lucky minority of a mass of psychopaths, most of which prosper a bit less at middle levels in organizations. Only low-functioning psychopaths are exposed and thrown out, and usually only by chance because of specific incidents.
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1. speedplane ◴[02 Dec 18 10:24 UTC] No.18581732[source]▶
No way. The psychopaths at the top of the top are a different breed, by an order of magnitude. It takes a different "type" of person to run for U.S. President than to run a large organization or company. Consider the president of GM, who worked her way up over 30 years from bottom to top and had to learn everything in between. Compare that to either Trump, who basically staged his election as reality TV episode that went wrong (he just wanted ratings, not to run the place). Also consider Obama, who was so smart, well spoken, and charismatic, probably only heard people telling him would be president from 18 onwards. Also Ted Cruz, who would happily accept a role of enforcement of the "US Moral Compass" as his pre-ordained right/duty.

My point is that there are plenty of folks at the top of their company that are not physcopaths, they inched their way up over decades of sweat and tears, and even if they aspired to lead on their way up, they knew they had to prove themselves in every aspect of the business first. CEOs of GM and Merck are decent examples. Then there are folks who believe they were chosen for the job before their birth. I'm scared of them.