"Creative". No.
"Creative and willing to invest financially". Yes.
Don't Look for Talent, Find People Who Do Things
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#62shameless autopromotion, a.k.a. my viewpoint: http://blog.cyplo.net/2011/07/24/how-to-hire-people/
Pro-tip: don't just link your blog post, give us an executive summary. If you won't make the effort to do at least that, I wouldn't expect many to make the effort to click your link.
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I don't like X, therefore I won't consider X's arguments. That strategy seems like a great way to never learn anything except whatever confirms your own biases.
I didn't say he wasn't right about this. Just regret that I provided traffic to his site.
Honestly, outside of the crazy hyperbole leading up to the (terrible) movie, he wrote some good stuff on his old blog, and the assistant he mentions(Ryan holiday) wrote a fascinating book called trust me in lying.
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Yes. Both with autism. It is challenging, but not impossible. You have to do more than just a hobby. You have to manage time, energy, and money.
Wow. Our younger is only slightly autistic, and the elder has already grown up. Two simultaneously would be challenging indeed!
It is. We have to make sure each of us still goes out. Both together when we can arrange a baby sitter after they are put to bed, and alone when we have an event or something we want to go to. It's tiring. They are wonderful children though. Incredibly happy and affectionate.
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#65I can't work on projects outside of work because I work ~12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week and there's no way I can free up the long periods of time needed to create something good. I can't talk up my technical accomplishments in an interview because my job isn't particularly technically demanding or interesting, beyond the company name. I think I'm a good interviewer except when it comes to talking about anything I've…
Wait, you're working 60+ hours on boring crap that doesn't advance your career? WHAT THE HELL?!? STOP THAT!! Take another job. ANY other job. Flip burgers if you must. Get your priorities in order. 60+ hour work weeks on something you don't utterly love leave you no time to have a life, much less build a career.
And sometimes you desperately need money.
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#66I find this particularly tingling because Tucker himself is a perfect example of doing things. He gets a lot of flak from people calling him a poor writer and lambasting him for writing about some of the "finer" topics in life. Yet, he is a New York Times bestselling author, and his detractors are not.
He's the worst kind of shitty writer. He's clearly intelligent. His writing is shit because he doesn't care. Why should I spend time reading him if he doesn't put time into the quality of his writing?
>His writing is shit because he doesn't care.
I am not convinced this is true, nor have I seen a sophisticated analysis of his work that demonstrates this point (though I am open to reading one); it seems that most people assume the point and then proceed from there.
I did write a mostly positive analysis of his work here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/hilarity-ensues-tuc... , however.
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#67I read this whole post before realizing it was written by that prick, Tucker Max. I wish I could unread it.
I'm not sure why this is highly upvoted, but I would recommend reading "How to Disagree": http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html to those who have.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, you're working 60+ hours on boring crap that doesn't advance your career? WHAT THE HELL?!? STOP THAT!! Take another job. ANY other job. Flip burgers if you must. Get your priorities in order. 60+ hour work weeks on something you don't utterly love leave you no time to have a life, much less build a career.
And sometimes you desperately need money.
Not often, plenty of people survive with very little, even in developed nations.
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#69shameless autopromotion, a.k.a. my viewpoint: http://blog.cyplo.net/2011/07/24/how-to-hire-people/
Pro-tip: don't just link your blog post, give us an executive summary. If you won't make the effort to do at least that, I wouldn't expect many to make the effort to click your link.
thanks :)
to you point: I think the recruitment process should be less automated and more humane. One should just sit and try to work with another person, as they would be their work partner.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pro-tip: don't just link your blog post, give us an executive summary. If you won't make the effort to do at least that, I wouldn't expect many to make the effort to click your link.
thanks :) to you point: I think the recruitment process should be less automated and more humane. One should just sit and try to work with another person, as they would be their work partner.
Agreed, have heard good reports of companies contracting prospectives for a day or more to actually work on something on the company's todo list, and doing it with pair programming.