On hiring
Ideas about talent, leverage, institutions, labor, and how companies actually work when nobody is performing for the room.
A company is just the speed at which truth can travel without permission.
Most companies think they are competing on strategy, talent, or product quality. Underneath all of that, they are really competing on one hidden variable: how fast an uncomfortable truth can move from the edge of the system to the center without getting socially punished on the way.
The middle class job is disappearing because software finally learned English.
Most founders do not need better employees. They need fewer people with higher slope.
The smartest people often look unserious to institutions in the beginning.
On hiring
Ideas about talent, leverage, institutions, labor, and how companies actually work when nobody is performing for the room.
A company is just the speed at which truth can travel without permission.
Most companies think they are competing on strategy, talent, or product quality. Underneath all of that, they are really competing on one hidden variable: how fast an uncomfortable truth can move from the edge of the system to the center without getting socially punished on the way.
The middle class job is disappearing because software finally learned English.
Most founders do not need better employees. They need fewer people with higher slope.
