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by alexandercrohde·9y ago·view on hn ↗
"to bamboozle the rest." What do you mean by this? Do you suggest the author is trying to confuse/deceive people, because he clearly puts LOTS of work into his blog and I don't imagine he directly gets profit from it [so I have no idea what his motivation would be].

That's a very poetic criticism and all, but I guess it doesn't really mean anything.

The situation is this: Many professionals (such as myself) find the world of business entirely irrational and unpredictable. Those like me are trying to make heads or tails of it and often just resort to humor (Dilbert, the Office, Silicon Valley) which gives us the simplistic narrative -> other people are crazy.

But some of us know there's more to it than that, and are actually trying to wrap our heads around it. It's not clear if you don't think understanding work matters or if you think there's a better source of truth for explaining the massive irrationalities of work.

Either way, poetry doesn't really establish or disprove anything.

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Edit: For those like me who are searching for patterns among the chaos of human group behavior, I suggest the books "Moral Mazes" and "Games People Play"

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He puts a lot of work trying to weasel out a theory based on a caricuturized comedy.

It reminded me of some ideas from socionics though, mainly how strengths and weaknesses create relationship types

http://www.socionics.com/rel/rel.htm

That wasn't how I understood it. Rather, my impression is that the theory is not based on the comedy, but is rather explained using the language and situations of the comedy.
another good book recommendation for trying to understand the chaos of human group behavior that focuses on leaders and how they lead is "the dictators handbook: why bad behavior is almost always good politics." by alastair smith and bruce mesquita.