The one thing we ask is that the man who is not thinking should get out of the way of the man who is. The world wants to move forward, and if you're not moving with it, you're holding it back.
After two decades of working inside companies like Google, Facebook, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and supporting leaders at companies like Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Gamma, I've come to believe that blaming people for problems that are actually structural is one of the biggest leadership traps there is.
It had taken Sutskever years to be able to put his finger on Altman's pattern of behavior — how OpenAI's CEO would tell him one thing, then say another and act as if the difference was an accident. "Oh, I must have misspoken," Altman would say.
how OpenAI's CEO would tell him one thing, then say another and act as if the difference was an accident. "Oh, I must have misspoken," Altman would say. Sutskever felt that Altman was dishonest and causing chaos, which would be a problem for any CEO, but especially for one in charge of such potentially civilization-altering technology.
It had taken Sutskever years to be able to put his finger on Altman's pattern of behavior — how OpenAI's CEO would tell him one thing, then say another and act as if the difference was an accident.
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
