How to Deal With Brilliant Jerks You Work With
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#2Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory.
Wow, that's offensive.
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#3Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Wow, that's offensive.
Indeed.
But note well -- the question must be taken seriously!
As I get older I'm finding it harder to distinguish parody from stupidity/ignorance (aka Poe's law).
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#4Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Wow, that's offensive.
I'm not even sure why that's part of the article at all. The piece is originally about dealing with smart jerks and suddenly the author switches to talking about bringing in older employees?
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#5Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Wow, that's offensive.
Senior as in age? Or senior as in someone who has the experience?
I interpreted it as the latter... although I live in England and when people mention senior I think of people who has experience.
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#6Didn't Ben Horowitz basically publish this already as Old People? http://www.bhorowitz.com/old_people
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#7Didn't Ben Horowitz basically publish this already as Old People? http://www.bhorowitz.com/old_people
Ah it's basically a smush of two things... http://www.bhorowitz.com/when_smart_people_are_bad_employees
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#8Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Wow, that's offensive.
Indeed. But note well -- the question must be taken seriously! As I get older I'm finding it harder to distinguish parody from stupidity/ignorance (aka Poe's law).
I started assuming it is stupidity/ignorance unless its April 1 or they are paid to be funny (e.g. comedian, The Onion).
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#9Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Wow, that's offensive.
Indeed. Maybe someone just decided to take the most provocative pieces of the book and stitch together an article, and used a data driven HN-baity headline generator program? :-)
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#10Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. Wow, that's offensive.
Senior as in age? Or senior as in someone who has the experience? I interpreted it as the latter... although I live in England and when people mention senior I think of people who has experience.
Usually they go hand in hand.