I actually don't know how many content-warnings to slap on this one

CW: death and taxes

Ok, I just observed another ABC drama in that very dramatic entrepreneurial group. So you have a community builder (CB), and an antagonist (A), where A is going and making long complex arguments that CB is a waste of space.

So it was a bit of a challenge to figure out how to tactfully tell A, "OMG, stop doing that!" If the CBs stop working, there will be no communities left, and when there are no communities, then there will be no cannon fodder left for entrepreneurs to innovate on!

It's a bit awkward living in Malaysia, not really knowing how to carry myself without offending people because you know, it's not exactly a grade-A market for ... various things, GDP, innovation, deep tech, and all that. You don't want people running around saying "don't listen to X, he's a B-grader" because a B player in a C market is doing ... pretty good, and you don't want the C players focusing on the Ds, and the Fs. Bs are good. It's kinda relative. At the same time you have to keep people conscious of this fact without saying too often "oh har har, glass ceiling, bitch, your ecosystem is cratered no matter what you do, hur hur hur". 

Later on in my reflections I was just thinking about how I'm supposed to think about all this. High-risk startups are like restaurants - they are individually expected to fail; anyone who gets excited about the individual companies is a moron; you have to bet on the asset as a class - and you do NOT spend your time trying to convince these morons to believe other than how they believe, because, then you would have no one left to run these companies ... cannon fodder is essential, precisely because no one knows where the cannonballs will land.

Onward, in war ... and love, I suppose, FWIW. 

Intermediate thoughts: It's better to focus on a B player in a C market, than on a con. // In a C market, it's better for C players to focus on B players, than on a con.

Analogously: children should be encouraged to play - it is more important to play by children's rules than to play by no rules at all.

Traditionally: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.