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> In one of the first meetings I held with one of the teams I had just taken charge of, a poster on the wall declared the ubiquitous Silicon Valley mantra: Bring Your Authentic Self to Work. To try to break the ice, I said, “Please don’t bring your authentic self to work. You wouldn’t like my authentic self if I brought it to work. So just bring your inauthentic self to work from nine to five and then you can go home and be yourself and we’ll get on perfectly well.” Stony silence

That would have absolutely earned a(n ungainly) fist pump from me!

dazc•5mo ago

From a guy who's authentic self changes with the direction of the wind?

akoboldfrying•5mo ago

Maybe it's more authentic to acknowledge that being inauthentic -- also known as politeness or professionalism -- is sometimes the best policy for everyone.

adrianmsmith•5mo ago

I feel the implication in the article is that Clegg believes it's impossible to be a wealthy man and also a victim? I mean yeah these people probably aren't victims. But simply saying they're wealthy is insufficient to prove that.

bigbadfeline•5mo ago

> I feel the implication in the article is that Clegg believes it's impossible to be a wealthy man and also a victim? ... But simply saying they're wealthy is insufficient to prove that.

You "feel" something and you demand Clegg to prove what you feel instead of you proving that Clegg is really implying what you feel. But he isn't trying to prove anything, in fact he accepts whiny wealthy men as fact, he just feels this to be an ugly combination:

>> Clegg: “In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they’re lucky, they think... they’re victims. I... can’t, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity."