This episode illustrates something much more than just the fact that software nerds, especially the ones that developed their career at Microsoft, mistakenly think they are intellectually great, not lucky. Let me just say something about Conan versus Vic or most of the geniuses at Google. Your intellect doesn’t hold a candle to Conan. You mistakenly believe that your ability to code empowers you. Well, not quite. You still can’t hold a decent conversation.

Vic, perhaps for the first time in his sheltered life, met a person who is actually decent, and sincere. That would be Conan. I would recommend every employee at Google watch this video over a number of time. Then go read the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. Zuckerberg may not be Mr. Collegiality, but compared to Vic, he is fairly decent. Vic on the other hand, reeks of the arrogance of Microsoft, laced with a little new money and feigned altruism from Google. While I think that Brin and Page have the right idea most of the time, Schmidt is a nerd and he seems to be perpetuating nerdy, social ineptness throughout Google.

So, as long as Google has power freeks like Schmidt and Vic at the visible positions, Facebook is going to keep kicking Google’s ass.

A piece of advice to Google. Get over yourselves. You aren’t that cool.