Smetative
"Bad feature ideas can be argued for months and rationalized because
smart people, lacking any sort of compelling real world data, are great
at debating and rationalizing bad decisions."
http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins-2
I'm going to call the combination of being smart and competitive -
"smetative". It can be a catastrophic combination.
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