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51 sats \ 5 replies \ @elvismercury 19h \ parent \ on: Strategy’s Proud Return to Junk (Financial Times, Craig Coben) econ
I'm convinced he's very smart. He has an astounding command of a broad range of material that he synthesizes fluidly and creatively.
I've spent waaaaaaay too much time around people trying, w/ varying degrees of success, to mimic the surface trappings of intelligence, and I think I have a good eye for that con. (The btc space is chock full of exemplars, surprise surprise.) Saylor has not tripped the alarm in me, whatever his other faults. One can gripe that he gets over his skis and overextends a metaphor (e.g., the "monetary energy", among others) but I have zero doubt that the guy is legit brilliant.
Of course, it's possible this reveals more about me than about the truth of Saylor.
He's clearly smart. He's well read and can talk circles around many of his critics. For one thing most of his critics in tradfi don't even understand bitcoin and the kicker is they don't know that they don't get it.
But, smart men can make mistakes and be wrong. Allow arrogance to cloud their thinking. But he's no dummy.
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Well, I'm not saying he's dumb, and he's obviously an order of magnitude smarter than the typical talking head on CNBC
but over time listening to him, some of the stuff he says seems slightly off... like it's directionally correct but wrong on some nuanced technical levels, and I'm not even referring to his clearly exaggerated metaphors (swarm of cyberhornets, etc.)
that's why I still think he's still rizz > tizz. he's probably smart in the sense of being able to synthesize a lot of broad, high level ideas, but he probably doesn't spend much time thinking about the nuances of technical details anymore
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I expect you'd find similar things, in anyone whose principal job is fundraising / boosting a company, and who's given ten million hours of speeches over five years aimed at diverse audiences in diverse circumstances.
I'm not accusing you of this, but there's a lot of people who don't like what Saylor is doing and their brains can't allow their "enemy" to have any good qualities, and need to transform him into some imbecile monkey. It's such a lazy way to think, and a stupid one, since now you've forced yourself to operate in a skewed reality just to enjoy the sweet pleasures of name-calling.
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Nah, I've felt this way about him since long before his bitcoin treasury days. I think it came from listening to some interviews and debates, I definitely think he's fast and loose with his words, which again is a sign of rizz > tizz
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He graduated from MIT with a degree in civil or aviation engineering
He started Microstrategy in 1989
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