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		curiousllama on Sept 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (2010... > This is pretty much what every consultant I've met in a personal setting has ever said to me. MBB, Big 4, boutique, all of them. Add "and one random commenter on HN" Consulting is a social exercise, not an intellectual one.

ZephyrBlu on Sept 8, 2022 | [–]

> Consulting is a social exercise, not an intellectual one

I'm beginning to realize that work in general is mostly a social exercise, not an intellectual one.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh on Sept 8, 2022 | [–]

Social exercises are intellectual exercises.

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