Apoorv Sharma

…onality. He was reminded of a line from American Gangster, spoken by the drug kingpin Frank Lucas: “The loudest man in the room is the weakest man in the room.” As Peter saw it, “If you need to call all that attention to yourself, you probably have self-estee…

nd it got easier with practice — seeing the capacity for misbehavior in each of us, the potential for bad; and noticing the …ng boy of 12 or 13, walking with his parents. A guy in a business suit. A guy running a Halal cart. It’s a little like those optical illusions, where you can force your eyes to see the negative space, Freud’s face or the nude woman, and it got easier with practice — seeing the capacity for misbehavior in each of us, the potential for bad; and noticing the tendency of my own mind to judge, to categorize, to project an image onto a person I’d never met.

To paraphrase a Steve Jobs quote, “it makes no sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do”.