It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder (or even to pretend to be one) if you just hire smart people and give them real authority. The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young “incubator twerps” strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, young twerp. Maybe try wearing a black turtleneck too. For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way.
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
Pretty much my sentiments exactly.
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Thirded.
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Spot on
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You are not Steve Jobs.
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this isn't happiness.: 10 Tips on Writing Well from David Ogilvy
- Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
- Write the way you talk. Naturally.
- Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
- Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
- …
Co-Lab Project Space: "Bullshit Detector" : Jamie Panzer, February 18th-25th, 2012
“Bullshit Detector” : Jamie PanzerOpening Reception: Saturday, February 18th, 2012, 7-11PM
On view by appointment only through February 25th
The schematic for this ancient apparatus was unearthed one day when I was digging for loose coins in the dirt. I’ve reconstructed a prototype using…
reasons why the recent PBS American Masters episode on Woody Allen is worth watching, pt. 1 of ?:
cinematographer Gordon (“Prince of Darkness”) Willis don’t need no optically-printed splitscreen for the psychiatrist scene in Annie Hall.
watch it here.
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