Originally published at: Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes hands over creepy to-do list better suited for a robot | Boing Boing
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“My hands are always in my pockets or gesturing.”
From the Alanis Morrissette school of management.
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This is bog standard millennial era boss-life coaching.
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I’ve heard in the military you’re just supposed to dangle your arms like noodles, no pockets allowed
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- “I call bullshit immediately.”
Yeah, grifter, I’m just gonna call out a little BS of my own on that statement.
Also, do you think she and fellow socio-bot Zuck sometimes compare notes on how to optimise their OS’s?
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Those are impressive notes if taken by her free feet.
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Find Will Robinson
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I don’t know that I’d call her faux-deep thousand-yard stare method of speaking CLEAR and CONCISE so much as WEIRD and CREEPY, but we all have to get through the day somehow.
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I wonder if her 10 minutes of daily prayer went something like this:
“Please god let me get away with this fraud until I can buy my way to a country with no extradition treaties with the US…please Lord in Havana…”
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She lives life with this precision and yet cannot spell broccoli, tabouleh, or banana? Her handwriting also looks like a drunken GP’s.
Also ‘SHOW NO EMOTION EVER’ is probably not the leadership superpower she believes it to be.
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You’re doing it wrong.
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That very unrealistic morning routine list is eerily similar to bro Mark Wahlberg’s. Even if it didn’t happen, just reading it, you suspect that something is way off.
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- 6:45 – drive to
- I do everything I say – word for word.
The list ends at 6:45 when she spent the rest of the day driving aimlessly.
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Eat, Pray, Con
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I had bosses like this, they had to schedule a poop or they wouldn’t poop for a day or two.
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It reads very much like a person desperate to be what they write. It’s aspirational rather than descriptive. Like an adolescent’s Mary Sue fan fiction but turned into a CEO’s description of what they think an admirable leader looks like.
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Can confirm.
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This is literally the kind of things you hear on the top fifty business podcasts or “how to be an awesome techbro” newsletter/blogsite/podcast/tedX talk .
This isn’t creepy at all, I’d wager if you pop open 100 CEOs dayplanners, bullet journals, “CLEAR” journals, or GTD files you’d see these type of things.
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No, it’s creepy all right. The fact that lots of people do this doesn’t make it less creepy.
Quite the reverse.
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First day Basic Training, first words I hear from my first DI : “Hands outa yur pockets Numbnuts!”
