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Her background is pretty non-traditional. Such people tend to be independent and consequently have a lot of integrity -- they do the career destroying things that almost nobody does.

    The only woman on the board then,
    Arianna Huffington, who had vowed
    that the culture of “brilliant
    jerks” must end, had been trying
    to help Mr. Kalanick by advising
    him to sleep more and meditate.
    But he caused another kerfuffle
    when he chose to meditate in the
    lactation room.
This sounds like an environment where people were really banking on no one ever saying anything about anything -- which is just not a prudent thing to do.
Her background is pretty non-traditional.

Howso? There are quite a few Ivy League physics grads in the bay.

I suspect the original comment was referring to the home-schooling and intense Stoic education early on. Ivy League physics grads are indeed pretty part-and-parcel; people who had to go to Dean's office to get in, less so.

"Her background is pretty non-traditional. Such people tend to be independent and consequently have a lot of integrity"

Uh is that something you can support with facts? She's just an independent person with integrity. I don't see how it has to be a consequence of what you qualify as a "non-traditional background."

It has been my observation over a few years of working but it is ultimately no more than that — a personal observation.

For facts I could list people I have known or read about — but that is just anecdata, and my direct observations are not subject to verification. How would one structure a good solid study on integrity, to get solid facts of this kind? The absence of such a methodology does not, unfortunately, mean we don’t have to think hard about people and integrity.

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