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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/Daojoan/statuses/114266501370078784">JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 17:23:59 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" title="daojoan@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/138550-48-20231026081403.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="JA Westenberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">JA Westenberg</a></section><article><p>If someone needs to belittle, berate, or break others to feel powerful, they’re not a genius—they’re a tyrant in a hoodie, a bully with a pitch deck, a tantrum in search of a title.</p><p>And we should stop fucking clapping.<br><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/stop-conflating-genius-with-asshole/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/stop-conflating-genius-with-asshole/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4831531#notice-9462369">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-02T17:23:59+09:00" title="Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 17:23:59 JST">about 3 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114266501370078784" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114266501370078784">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: images.unsplash.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/stop-conflating-genius-with-asshole/">Stop Conflating Genius With Asshole</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Somewhere between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, we started believing that in order to be brilliant, you had to be unbearable. That cruelty itself was a kind of clarity. That the sneer, the kicking and screaming, the impossible-to-please demands were just signs of a mind operating on a different level.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 17:23:59 JST JA Westenberg
If someone needs to belittle, berate, or break others to feel powerful, they’re not a genius—they’re a tyrant in a hoodie, a bully with a pitch deck, a tantrum in search of a title.
And we should stop fucking clapping.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/stop-conflating-genius-with-asshole/
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  Somewhere between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, we started believing that in order to be brilliant, you had to be unbearable. That cruelty itself was a kind of clarity. That the sneer, the kicking and screaming, the impossible-to-please demands were just signs of a mind operating on a different level.

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