I’m reminded of a quote in Lords of Finance (which I finished yesterday) which went something like ‘Only a fool asks a central banker about the currency and expects an honest answer’. Since confidence is what keeps banks and currencies going...
See, if instead of “I’m not paid to have doubts.” he said “I am paid to address all doubts before a product is released”, that would have made more sense.
I’m not paid to have doubts. (Laughs.) I don’t have any.
This comes across as inauthentic and slightly scared to me. At best, he’s not great at PR. At worst, he doesn’t have any back up plan. So that would support calling it irrationality.
telling an interviewer you have sufficient confidence in your product to not need a backup plan is rational
Well. I was thinking about it, and it seems like not having a backup plan is the kind of thing that would send bad signals to investors and whatnot. It’s not clear to me that he’s better off doing this than explaining how Microsoft is a fantastically professional company that’s innovating and reaching into new frontiers, etc.
actually not having one isn’t
I don’t know specifically what alternate products would potentially be good ideas for them though. I agree that backup plans are good in general but I don’t know if they’re good for Microsoft specifically, based on the resources they have. Windows is kind of their thing, I don’t know if they could execute on anything else.
I’d saying telling an interviewer you have sufficient confidence in your product to not need a backup plan is rational, actually not having one isn’t.
I’m reminded of a quote in Lords of Finance (which I finished yesterday) which went something like ‘Only a fool asks a central banker about the currency and expects an honest answer’. Since confidence is what keeps banks and currencies going...
See, if instead of “I’m not paid to have doubts.” he said “I am paid to address all doubts before a product is released”, that would have made more sense.
This comes across as inauthentic and slightly scared to me. At best, he’s not great at PR. At worst, he doesn’t have any back up plan. So that would support calling it irrationality.
Well. I was thinking about it, and it seems like not having a backup plan is the kind of thing that would send bad signals to investors and whatnot. It’s not clear to me that he’s better off doing this than explaining how Microsoft is a fantastically professional company that’s innovating and reaching into new frontiers, etc.
I don’t know specifically what alternate products would potentially be good ideas for them though. I agree that backup plans are good in general but I don’t know if they’re good for Microsoft specifically, based on the resources they have. Windows is kind of their thing, I don’t know if they could execute on anything else.