The Cult of Microsoft
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Soundtrack: EL-P - Flyentology At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how your on-the-job performance is judged. I am

Spooky stuff that helps explain a lot of the dysfunction flowing out from Microsoft.

  • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’m also confused as to what the takeaway was supposed to be here. Like, because a whole bunch of different famous psych studies fail to replicate maybe this one is less invalid?

    Also, were they expecting Ed Zitron of all people to not write a polemical?

    • RandomgalEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Yes. That’s literally what it means. If your science is not reproducible it’s not science.