In my opinion, most iltra rivh get to where they are by being narcissictic sociopaths. But zuckerberg really takes the cake. Remember when he thought a makeover and singing listens would be enough to make him president? Mans actually deranged. Brilliant, but actually crazy

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flyingcircus3 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Watching him walk out with UFC fighter Alexander Volkanovski as if he were part of his corner, and seeing him continuously, but incorrectly, anticipate that the rest of the men he was with were about to hand him something, or otherwise interact with him in any way, was honestly a mouth wide open moment for me. Not that the other guys ignored him, but that he clearly expected them all to include him at this moment that months of their preparation have lead up to, contrasted with him buying his way in to. It was one of those moments that makes you feel better about your own social awkwardness in comparison.

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goosejuice 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is he brilliant?

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bryanrasmussen 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know if I would say he was brilliant, that seems a bit of an overshoot, but I will say the following on his behalf in order to not suggest he is just a lucky idiot.

Lots of people were in that space trying to guess what was going to be the way to go, he did, that can of course be that he guessed with luck. But if someone guesses big with luck maybe it is just as reasonable to say that they had at least some clever insights.

He has multiple times bought his way out of the things that would threaten him. That is of course the game, it doesn't make him brilliant but it does make him reasonably competent at that part of his business.

There are lots of people that are described as neurodivergent who do not understand social interaction, or are very bad at it, let us, for the sake of argument, say that Zuckerberg is one of these (it is possible that my face looks like I am sucking on a lemon as I type this), but most of these people do not bother to try to model various ways that the people do socially interact do it, and build successful businesses on top of a model that may perhaps be flawed but does have some predictive/manipulative power.

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karim79 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In the same way as Pablo Escobar was "brilliant" I suppose. By being financially successful while destroying countless lives.

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		Escobar likely did less societal harm than Zuck.