People have a very difficult time keeping their story together, especially when they're asked a couple of questions that interview prep didn't cover.
Beyond that though, there's the probation period. If they can't do the job, they're supposed to be let go before they become permanent.
Trouble I see from most interviewers is a tendency of asking questions with a "right" answer. Those tend to be a lot easier to game. They then fallback on sorting applicants by pedigree - the old, "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM" method.
Then, they come back and rant about how PM's are trash, and Agile is trash, etc. etc.
Pretty easy. Get them to talk about a project they've managed and start poking holes. Who was on the team? How did they organize meetings? What were the bottlenecks? How well did everyone get along? What did they do to help grease the gears? Did they have to change the process? How did they like the software? Which software did they use? Did they have to administer it themselves? How did they deal with management changes / team changes / tons of support requests / issues in production? Where did they draw the line between PM work and engineering work?
I don't plan on using Full Self Driving features until I have to in an emergency, or until they take the steering wheel away.
BUT!
Last week, I had visitors and they let their Model Y Tesla (2023, I think) do the driving for their entire trip - from driving for many hours to visit me, to driving around all the different sights where I live, and, I'm assuming, driving back home. It was all full self-driving.
I got to sit in the passenger seat a few times. The thing drove beautifully. Parked without an issue, changed lanes, overtook other cars, etc... drove even better than the person at the wheel would have had the feature not been available!
> Every marketplace founder says "focus on one side
Unless you already have demand lined up, I would solve the supply side of the problem first. People who either travel routinely or are planning to, or just a lot of people from a specific, large community in order to target your recruiting campaign.
I would also spend a lot of time figuring out the user journey for both the supply and demand side. See if you can reduce the work someone on the supply side has to do to sign up. You might have to run this like a modeling agency in the beginning until there is sufficient demand to force suppliers to do more work.
Constraining to one route (SFO -> Honolulu) is how DHL got started.
I think that most people are at a neutral level of happiness / sadness. Something good happens... it makes the happiness level go up, then come back down to neutral. Something bad happens, it makes the level go negative, then come back up to neutral.
A few people are naturally positive. They're just happy most of the time. Their bounce back state is happy, rather than neutral.
And, a few people are always depressed. A bad experience makes their state of being much, much darker. A good experience may bring them to the neutral line or perhaps slightly above, but they go back to depression as their normal state of being soon enough.
If I were to guess, I would say that early childhood trauma is the greatest contributor. Children deserve better everywhere.
Baggage, whether it is from our life or lives before us will always be just that - baggage. If we don't choose how much to carry with us then someone else will happily choose for us.
To me, facing defeat with an open face means to not remain defeated forever.
Some of our best entrepreneurs and scientists lost many times before they won.
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