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  1. ribbonfarm.com

    This is a simple and child-like example of the operation of a basic human instinct: the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose or HIWTYL (let's pronounce that "hightail") instinct. It is the tendency to grab more than your fair share of the rewards of success, and less than your fair share of the blame for failure.
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      Part V, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: In which we explore the world of capitalist creative destruction, in particular the basic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose pattern behind all Sociopath machinations, and its manifestation in the form of bureaucratic processes and divide-and-conquer politics.

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  2. 1.2 The Gervais Principle and Its Consequences The Gervais Principle: Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-e ort losers to fend for themselves.
  3. astralcodexten.com

    Once you stop craving other people's good opinions, you lose some mental blocks that would normally prevent you from coming up with manipulative strategies. Rao says the most basic Sociopath manuever is "heads I win, tails you lose" - coming up with some way of arranging systems so that they get the credit for good results while avoiding ...
  4. Oct 1, 20245. Sociopath Strategies: HIWTYL and Divide-and-Conquer Sociopaths use unbalanced incentives to harden a fault-line into a schism, relying on natural intra-group tensions and fuzzy accounting to do the job. Sociopath manipulation tactics. Two key strategies employed by Sociopaths: HIWTYL (Heads I Win, Tails You Lose):
  5. First, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend the 6-part (!!!) blog series by Venkatesh Rao entitled The Gervais Principle, which picks apart office life (and organizational life in general) through the lense of the American version of The Office. Today I'm quoting from Part V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose:
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