I love all the insights here, and curious—what did you find it to generalize to?
My head’s been on startups lately; reading “enemy” as “competitor” it might be that poaching their employees is worth more than a normal hire? (This was one internal theory about why Google retains so many engineers who don’t do that much). If “supply” is “ideas”, it’s not obvious that copying ideas from the competitor is any better than finding them from any other place, though.
reading “enemy” as “competitor” it might be that poaching their employees is worth more than a normal hire?
Yes, I was thinking about generalizations like this. Or when competing in a moral maze you might want to try to get subordinates of a manager on your level to work for you—even if only a bit. Not saying that is ethical but those are the things it generalizes to.
I love all the insights here, and curious—what did you find it to generalize to?
My head’s been on startups lately; reading “enemy” as “competitor” it might be that poaching their employees is worth more than a normal hire? (This was one internal theory about why Google retains so many engineers who don’t do that much). If “supply” is “ideas”, it’s not obvious that copying ideas from the competitor is any better than finding them from any other place, though.
Yes, I was thinking about generalizations like this. Or when competing in a moral maze you might want to try to get subordinates of a manager on your level to work for you—even if only a bit. Not saying that is ethical but those are the things it generalizes to.