“When Smart People Defend Bad Ideas”
May 29th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
"Scott Berkun, Smart People, Bad Ideas" : "Scott Berkun, former Microsoftie,
just got
slashdotted with an essay about
"Why smart people defend
bad ideas". It’s a very interesting essay. I’m not crazy about his examples,
but his portrayal of the bad-idea-defender is dead on: "Until they come face
to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and
resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out
during debate (e.g. ‘You don
