On talent
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On talent
Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts
Daniel Grosspodcasts.apple.com
Finding Undiscovered Talent
joincolossus.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
How 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
When Generalists Are Better Than Specialists, and Vice Versa
hbr.org
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
Non-trivial | Start solving the world's most pressing problems
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