On talent
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On talent
How do you formulate an aim in life when you don't even know what jobs will exist in a few years, or what will be invented?
You don't shoot for a specific job. You shoot for the process the job does: I want to work with the human mind, code, solve problems, fix things, etc.
nametwitter.comThe job description Bezos wrote for his very first employee said, “You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.
Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
The High-Return Activity of Raising Others' Aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION
Tyler Cowenmarginalrevolution.comHow the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his
Creative work is inherently unequal. This is very visible in the income distributions of singers and movie stars, but less visible in white-collar professions.
Why? Thanks to/because of the office. 1/7