David Boree

Other potential offers fall through as she conflicts with the fundamental snake oiliness of this era of Silicon Valley development.

Ziz blames it on the fact that she couldn't feign enthusiasm for companies she didn't believe in.

Quote, I was inexperienced with convincing body language inclusive lies like this.

I did not have the right false face, but very quick to think up words to say.

So, like, I'm not good enough at lying that I'm excited about working for an app to, you know, help you do your laundry better, which is like a third of the bay.

Yeah.

And once again, she has like flashes of like, oh, wow, you really you really have strong morals and all that.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, she had a strong resume, right?

She won an award as a NASA intern, right?

Yeah.

She really is good at a lot of this stuff.

And all of these Zizians, as silly as their beliefs about philosophy and cognitive science are, they're all extremely accomplished in their fields, nearly.

It's good evidence of the fact that, like, it's always a mistake to think of intelligence as, like, an absolute characteristic.

Like, I am a genius software engineer.

Therefore, I am smart.

It's like, no, no, no.

You're dumb at plenty of things, Mr. Software Engineer.

Yeah, don't sell yourself short.

Yeah.