Guy’s latest article is “The Art of Sucking Down” and Robert Scoble claims that it’s the best article Guy has written.
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The article is about being nice to people. Guy has some interesting points about trying to make people smile during the day but it reads very much like a guide on how to intelligently schmooze your way through life. It really is a manual on “how to act like a compassionate human being and not an arrogant results-driven robot”.
Why do we need these gurus to tell us how to act? It’s because, I think, we’re taught to admire results-driven people. I know quite a few, you know, the sort who would skin you alive if they needed something to write on. The ones who would gleefully sell snow to an eskimo knowing full well he really doesn’t need it. I sat up one night with two salespeople and they both expressed disbelief that everyone was not like them. They firmly believed that it was a dog-eat-dog world out there.
I don’t admire that and indeed, infurious’ name is inspired by such a person. And it doesn’t have to be dog-eat-dog.