W38: Street-Wisdom 💬🇻🇪 Caimán no come caimán.

🎬 Teaser

You don’t build a name by burning the competitor’s house. An older peer pulls you aside in the hallway with a quiet warning after a tense meeting.

✔️ TLDR

You operate in a tough world, but you don’t attack your own kind. This is mutual non-aggression among peers, a code of professional courtesy. You do not throw a colleague under the bus to score a quick point. You use it when you warn a rival to back off because you share common turf, or when a startup founder chooses not to publicly trash a competitor’s product.

💬 Context

Rival agency founders share a drink at a trade show and still keep the unspoken rules. Same instinct when a peer could sink your pitch in front of a client and chooses silence instead.

📄 Going deeper

In English

Closest English equivalents include:

• There’s honor among thieves
• We protect our own
• You don’t mess with your own kind
• Never throw your own under the bus

The Price of the Cheap Shot

When you break the unspoken code to win a quick point, you alienate one peer and signal to the entire room that you’re unsafe. Trust frays, and next time you need someone to cover you, you’re on your own.

You reach for it when a colleague tempts you to score points by exposing a peer’s mistake, and you choose the long-term safety of mutual respect instead.