Brin doesn't always manage to convert his ideas into practical actions that work, or at least not from what I've seen. His arguments about bets come across differently when looking at them from the other side of the argument.
They come off as the intellectual equivalent of bullying. At least to me.
There again I look at everything as confrontation between differing perspectives, with negotiation and deescalation being the prime goal so that that a problem can be worked on cooperatively. But, what do I know?
However, this talk struck a chord; It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift...
