as a self-professed

smart person, i found this essay about why smart people defend bad ideas, to be very...convincing. perhaps more relevant to most people, who are neither smart nor dumb, is his essay about why i left microsoft.

in fact, the latter resonated with me: i'm not where he was when he decided to leave msft, but i will be there some day; i just know it. he joined msft to escape his fear of post-college emptiness, but he left msft to define his own idea of success. i can appreciate that sort of risk-taking, and wish him the best.