to be clear I think he’s not implementing good strategy in the face of the technical strategic landscape. some of the things he’s suggesting that sound awful to me may be good strategy if he phrased them in less misleading ways. but he’s doing the thing where you’re only required to be honest with the high detail interpretation of your sentence but allowed to mislead structurally, which is a thing that shows up in public communications from high skill technical people who don’t consider the vibes interpretation to be valid at all.
to be clear I think he’s not implementing good strategy in the face of the technical strategic landscape. some of the things he’s suggesting that sound awful to me may be good strategy if he phrased them in less misleading ways. but he’s doing the thing where you’re only required to be honest with the high detail interpretation of your sentence but allowed to mislead structurally, which is a thing that shows up in public communications from high skill technical people who don’t consider the vibes interpretation to be valid at all.