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7. Andy Herzfeld, “Reality Distortion Field,” written February
1981, http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&
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Date&detail=medium&search=reality%20distortion%20field.

8. Colin Barker, NeXT Computer: When Cool Wasn’t Enough,
http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/features/2129861/computer-cool
wasn-enough.

9. Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell, Think
Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from
Happening to You (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2009).

10. Donna Marie De Carlos and Patrick Saparito, “Social Capital,
Cognition, and Entrepreneurial Opportunities: A Theoretical
Framework,” Entrepreneurship, Theory, and Practice 30, no. 1 (January
2006): 41-56.

11. Mark Simon, Susan M. Houghton, and K. Aquino, “Cognitive Bi-
ases, Risk Perception, and Venture Formation: How Individuals
Decide to Start Companies,” Journal of Business Venturing 15, no.
2 (2000): 113-134.

12. Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman, “Delusions of Success: How
Optimism Undermines Executives’ Decisions,” Harvard Business
Review 81, no. 7 (July 2003): 58.

13. Paul Graham, “Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas,” Paul
Graham.com, April 2005, http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze
.html.

14. Hmieleski and Baron, “Entrepreneur’s Optimism and New Ven-
ture Performance: A Social Cognitive Perspective,” 475.

15. Mathew Hayward, Dean Shepherd, and Dale Griffin, “A Hubris
Theory of Entrepreneurship,” Management Science 52, no. 2 (2006):
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