The Face of Insanity (Alex St. John)

[Morat20]

When your daughter writes a public piece describing your recent writing as "the horrific toddler meltdown my father has been very publicly broadcasting over the past few days", that should be about as clear a sign that you need to rethink literally everything about your life.

Judging from his writing, he's basically the Peter Principle in action OR he's one of those relentless self-promoting types who, when they succeed, do so with a mix of flim-flam, forceful personalities, people pushing to make them someone else's problems, and frankly an amazing ability to peddle bullshit.

The latter is important, because the best bullshit peddlers are those who believe their own bullshit.

And those guys don't ever doubt themselves. Ever.

[Margalis]

he's one of those relentless self-promoting types who, when they succeed, do so with a mix of flim-flam, forceful personalities, people pushing to make them someone else's problems, and frankly an amazing ability to peddle bullshit.

I mean...his big accomplishment is being on the Direct X team in the 90s, from which he was fired. After that he worked at WildTangent, which started as a shitty failed tech platform and is now a shitty casual games portal. He is pretty much the epitome of a guy who got where he is today (which is no place special!) through self-promotion - speaking at "leadership councils", writing idiotic blog posts, etc.

[Salamok]

he's basically the Peter Principle in action ORAND he's one of those relentless self-promoting types

FTFY

[Margalis]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the peter principle describes someone promoted a level above their competency, not someone who was fired for incompetence then founded their own shitty company.

[Merusk]

You're correct.

[Paelos]

And those guys don't ever doubt themselves. Ever.

Not publicly. But deep down they are constantly afraid they are going to be exposed as frauds. It's why they so loudly attack any opposition. It's not confidence, it's fear.