Kara (Cara) Swisher

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624 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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And so I think people overestimate their intelligence, and I say that, or that they're necessarily any more intelligent than you.

And I don't think that is the case, spending time with them.

They're certainly good at certain things.

They've made certain calls that are great.

But we have an idolatry of innovators in a way that has just gotten out of hand.

And so don't expect wisdom from most of these people.

That's the one thing.

The other thing is this idea of they love the failure meme and the trope, the Edison thing.

I haven't failed.

I've just not done it right 10,000 times, whatever.

It's a version of that.

I like that idea that you can fail and then get up and continue to innovate and iterate and things like that.

But one of the things that happens is when a failure is a failure, it's just a failure.

Metaverse was a failure.

It just was.

And we laud them for like, oh, look, he tried that and it didn't work.

I'm like, nobody else gets that pass.

You try it and you don't work in other businesses if you're running Caterpillar or whatever.

Or Cybertruck.

Oh, he tried it.

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