F500ONE wrote:Splat wrote:
Speculatively, I'd say it either had to be:the one condition Dolan made before ceding operational controls
or
Phil was afraid to do a full rebuild (Zen Master No Fear!)
or
as I once said, it was hubris on Phil's part to think he of Zen fame would mold Melo in his image. Phil has got a giant ego himself from what I can see, so even if he understands personalities he can still slip up if he over-esteems his transformational abilities. All the stuff he said about Melo taking it a notch higher, that was all Phil. It's a load of horsechit mostly, because Melo has never adapted, so expecting him to do it now is hubris.
So an ego got in the way of intellect
Why call a roster clumsy, which had Melo on it
If he hadn't examined it with a keen eye at it's core
Why did this same exec in jest declare Lakers
Extension of Kobe as categorically absurd[he only brought them 5 chips]
Was he pouting and hating because Laker's didn't
Bring him aboard the royalty realm, I'm trying to weave a web of sense
Thus far nothing I've seen from Phil makes sense
He's actually been a clumsy President
I can't stand anything more when the allure suffocates reality
Paul Graham of Y Combinator writes superb essays that apply to life as much as entrepreneurial activities.
He made a key point when writing about what one chooses to do with their life, aka purpose and how it impacts your choices as an entrepreneur.
He said Prestige is the absolute worst reason to choose to do anything. His words follow:
What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of people you don't even know? [4]
This is easy advice to give. It's hard to follow, especially when you're young. [5] Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.
That's what leads people to try to write novels, for example. They like reading novels. They notice that people who write them win Nobel prizes. What could be more wonderful, they think, than to be a novelist? But liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it; you have to like making up elaborate lies.
Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind—though almost any established art form would do. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself.
Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with prestige. That's the recipe for getting people to give talks, write forewords, serve on committees, be department heads, and so on. It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious.
Similarly, if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
