Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
Demotions rarely work out long-term. More often, they’re a slower, more awkward way for someone to leave a company.
Molly Graham • Layering and Being Layered
many people, including this person, carry the attitudes and habits they pick up at their first job around for quite a long time
Culture matters
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
