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To: Saturn V who wrote (72155)1/26/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
There is good paranoia and bad paranoia. Good paranoia is running a company like Intel and frequently, energetically and wisely hypothesizing what could go wrong with your business plans. The next step is to bullet-proof your plans so that even if unhelpful events occur your response is rapid, practical and effective. I've seen managers do this in several well run organizations and, at least to date, it appears to me to be a very shrewd way to run an enterprise.

Bad paranoia is the "conspiracy out to get ME" attitude that is so evident on this board lately. Bad paranoia has a patina of respectability because "organized" and presumably respectable privacy rights groups pound the desk on behalf of fanning the fears of "big brother". But at the end of the day, bad paranoia is bad paranoia.

I live in a suburb of New York City. Bridges, tunnels and toll highways in the area now use something called EZPass which is an electronic identifier, velcroed to a car windshield, that lets you zip through a toll plaza in EZPass Only Lanes with barely a slowdown. At crowded toll plazas, EZPass saves 10-fifteen minutes of useless delay each way. A relative of my wife adamantly refuses to use it because then "they" will know when he passes through. "They" don't care! All they want is their toll collection scheme to work efficiently. Same individual buys nothing on the internet ("They" will abscond with his credit card number, etc). Bad Paranoia crimps your lifestyle needlessly - in extreme cases, it can paralyze folks with fear.
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