Yeah, I know. I had counter arguments more targeted towards his thinking style, but he preferred to think straight like a machine, in a bad way.

The problem was not him, but the fact that the number of people who thinks like him. They may word it in a more benign form, but the idea is the same.

So obsessed with being the first mover and winning the battle, never thinking whether they should, or what would happen with that scenario.

Missing the whole forest and beyond for a single branch of a single tree.