Can you say more about how you got the idea people want to be scheduling meetings? I find I often want to bail out of meetings, not encourage them.
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It wouldn't be that hard to add a 1x1 invisible pixel in the message footer and see how well it works.
Because the title isn't his point.
His point is, and I quote: "What I think is bad is that there’s so much pride and focus on The Best of the Best of the Best, With Honors."
Which doesn't conflict with 10x. If 95% of the world's best software is written by the top 5% of programmers, the programmer who isn't in the top 1% and barely made the cut at the top 5% is still exceptional.
It's true companies seek pain avoidance rather than pleasure seeking behavior. But pain avoidance also gets you Windows instead of Linux or Mac.
If the question Zach is asking is: "is there such a thing as a 10x engineer?" the answer is yes.
The story from philosophy class was educational though.
Serendipitously, someone submitted a similar story just 3 minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573862
http://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/S...
If you are working on something that will grow big 10 years in the future (like AI), and it takes you only 6 to get there, why can't that be a success?
They both matter, and you need both. They come with a different price to pay, and a different reward.
With a great house, you can make more money from several bids at $150 than you would from a market using neighboring prices against you. The buyer doesn't have to be local, and they can sell it afterwards at any price they want.
It's the force that counteracts location, location, location. It's easier for a buyer to be from as far a location imaginable.
The essence of good-faith negotiation isn't to leave. It's to explore the options.
More often than not, neither party does. One or more parties cling to what they originally thought they wanted, at the expense of an outcome that is better for all parties. This burned me more often than lack of a BATNA.
If you don't get what you want, you had a negotiation with a bad outcome for at least one party. But that doesn't mean the negotiation didn't occur in good-faith.