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by ramon156 15 days ago
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so… they’re conmen

confidence man

Flowers for Algernon has something to say about this.
So Silicon Valley's big-head is based on an actual stereotype?
Yeah, except that Big Head was, as far as I understood, just sleepwalking or floating through life. He more or less wholly lacked that unquenchable thirst for money that motivates MBA frat boys to yell at balding beta cucks to type the code faster before AI replaces them...