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The premise is wrong. There is no asymptote. The top 1 in 100 are strong. But the top 1 in 10000 are stronger. See Lubinski et al, 2001. https://t.co/ezVQWIqZY0 https://t.co/1ysOe00Hsh

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I'd love to be working on psychometrics in a year or so. "And in this study we find that engineers with a verbal IQ of 130 can consistently handle 1 billion LoC a day of Flux. 145, 100 billion. 160, 10 trillion." Philosophy doctorates, YLS being raided by hyperscalers

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Checked our applicant tracking system the other day and found out I’m closing in on 1,000 people I personally interviewed over the last year for @getTeamflow. Learnings below.

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The odds of moving from being an average performer to a top-quintile performer over a ten-year period are only one in twelve.

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