Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

Adam Curtis’s All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace and Rivbonfarms The Gervis Priciple were foundations of my professional career growth.

This might seem a little odd, but I’m trying to “find my tribe” of interesting thinkers to bounce around ideas with and your comments on this thread suggest you’d have some great/thoughtful/interesting takes.

If you’re open it would be great to connect (email in my HN bio).

I find the Gervais Principle very illuminating but would love to hear how you turned it into career growth. Did it motivate you to indulge in Machiavellian scheming and join the ranks of the Sociopaths? Or let you make peace with a fate among the Clueless?

It mostly taught me to discern when to speak game talk, baby talk or PowerTalk.

This is the primary way to be promoted and seen as “part of the next level” in larger organizations.

This is a hard journey and really one you need to go on finding people you work with. It will drive you to work with more interesting people and do harder things.

What is it that you think you are missing?