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by justin66 2295 days ago
Seventies-era Xerox PARC cultivated a deliberately confrontational environment for its researchers. They managed to accomplish some great things.
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kondro 2295 days ago
"They managed to accomplish some great things" in spite of being jerks to each other.

Imagine what they could've accomplished if they had empathy and were collegial with each other.

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Gibbon1 2295 days ago
When you consider, other people took their ideas and build companies worth hundreds of billions out of them, but they themselves didn't. hmmm...
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