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autarch on Jan 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Smart People are Bad Employees

<pedant>Your goals and the company's are not orthogonal, they are in opposition. Orthogonal means unrelated, but in this case they are related, just not in the right way.</pedant>

damncabbage on Jan 4, 2011 [–]

Ack. Thanks; you're right.

(I'll leave the post as-is so your follow-up doesn't look silly.)

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