Why successful people often have bad opinions online(greyenlightenment.com)
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Why successful people often have bad opinions online
https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/04/02/why-successful-people-often-have-bad-opinions-online/
https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/04/02/why-successful-people-often-have-bad-opinions-online/
People can be extremely effective in one domain (e.g. building companies) without having a strong feedback loop for correctness in others.
Online discourse is a very different environment: - fast feedback - broad topics - low cost of being wrong
So you end up seeing a mismatch between “ability to execute in a narrow domain” and “ability to produce consistently well-calibrated opinions across many domains”.