On: You Don't Need a Mentor–Find a Nemesis Instead

[bryanrasmussen]

That von Cramm anecdote is also perhaps complicated by the fact that he was playing for a Germany ruled by the Nazis.

I don't think I've ever really had a nemesis though, at least in programming, although I do get the feeling I might have been other people's nemesis.

on edit: Thinking more about von Cramm, he was called a traitor for the admitting his error and thus losing, and I guess the person calling him a traitor was really working as a Nazi official at that time.

In reading about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_von_Cramm I can't help but wonder if he didn't admit the error as a form of protest against Nazism.

[suction → bryanrasmussen]

It's substack - authors expressing veiled admiration for Nazis is par for the course on there.

[bryanrasmussen → suction]

He expressed admiration for the sportsmanship of von Cramm, who had lots of problems with the Nazi regime it would seem.