What's going on here, with this human?
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What's going on here, with this human?
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#2This one is worth reading.
I have already learned a few of the things in this article the hard way. If anything else here is half so useful, any time spent reading the rest of this will pay for itself many times over.
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#3> One of the greatest gifts we have for each other, for our children and spouses, for our teammates, is the positive feedback loop we can put someone into purely by believing in them, by seeing their genius and their dysfunction clearly and then helping them construct conditions for the former to flourish.
Beautiful.
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#4> Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man.
Reminds me of a line from a movie, something like this:
"If everyone played poker the way they're supposed to, I would win 100% of the time."
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#5This was like a what you need to know tour through all of the LinkedIn-pro-sponsored, pseudo-quantitative approaches to evaluating personality guided by self fulfilling anecdotes and a glut of paraphrases/quotes from people I’ve never heard of. In other words, a lot of ideas clicked if somewhat reductive and Machiavellian. And certainly well researched and written.
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#6This is a relatively deep look into the bottomless task of considering a candiate for a role in an organization. It bears multiple readings.
It suggests that you may not learn much from interviews with the candidate, and may learn much more from face to face interviews with their references.
It encourages the reader to seek both the genius and dysfunction of every person (candidates and references), for each context they've worked in. (Altho I'd refer to these as their inherent irrationality and ingenuity; dysfunction and genius are the extremes.)
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#7> Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man. Reminds me of a line from a movie, something like this: "If everyone played poker the way they're supposed to, I would win 100% of the time."
Wrong article, did you mean to comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26986675 ?
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#8thanks for sharing.
i like how the author prefaces this essay with the fact that it's all a game. otherwise, i would think it's (the personality assessment part, which is half of it) a bit too reductionist.
the fact that some firms out there are going after people with some "personality type" isn't surprising to me, but seeing it clearly stated is...
"seeing the water" is very profound. it's something that has got me thinking a lot lately. what good is a feedback loop if nobody in your circle sees the water?
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#9I'm not sure I got much of value out of this on a quick reading. Could someone summarize the lessons of this article?
I think it's too psyche-oriented. Trying to psycho-analyze the candidates? Trying to find a person from whom you can get the maximum benefit?
I've always had the feeling that people who are very interested in psychology are really trying to gain an edge over the others who they now "understand better" than the person him or herself.
Think of playing poker. If you understand your opponents it will give you a a benefit. And it's an interesting exercise. But on the other hand you could spend more time mastering the probabilities and counting cards, and gain an advantage by simply being a better player yourself.
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#10> I’m looking for the felt sense of a “hungry mind” based on the way their questions flow. That’s very hard to fake.
As a candidate, just imagine you own the company. The questions will flow naturally once you think about what those clowns are doing with your money.