obesity becomes the new norm. everyone gets so fat they can't walk around, global production grinds to a halt. Nobody can remember how to hunt or farm since its so long since our sedentary society has engaged in such primitive practices.
the irony is that we all die of starvation in the aftermath of our obesity. slow acting doomsday.
Insightful! I guess I happen to be the very rare counterexample in that at some point in every interview process I've been through, I've been asked questions like the ones the author says won't get me hired.
And I've never been asked "can you do this job?" (not so bluntly anyways, though obviously you are evaluated on that to some degree)
Those questions don't mean you are not getting hired at all. They are (for better or for worse) standard practice by HR personnel. They might not tell you anything about a candidates capacity to do a job, but a lot of times personality fit is just as important. And I can tell a lot about a person by their answers to really stupid questions (even if they are canned, planned out, rehearsed responses).
I want to work with cool people and have the pleasure of doing so. If competency was the only factor my firm asked for when hiring, I'd probably be working somewhere else.
Ability is a necessary, but insufficient condition for employment, in my opinion.
THATS why the employers ask you the questions that "Mean You're Not Getting Hired"
Wow, that is one of the worst articles I have ever read by Gladwell.
I generally think Gladwell is overrated, but at least provides interesting anecdotes. I was sorely tempted to quit reading it about 2/3 through, but then I thought "maybe he'll tie together the 'football quarterback selection' story with the 'teacher selection' story in a meaningful way." But no. This would have been more interesting as a piece about either just college football quarterback selection or just the question of incentivising a high level of primary/secondary school education. In the context of the article, they're really not the same question
I'm not against open ended questions and unresolved endings, but the analogy was strained, lacked interesting content. And I am interested in both college football and the "quality of US secondary school education" debate...
The Gladwell love-fest is getting out of hand. I've enjoyed his writing to date for the most part, despite thinking that it was not quite as groundbreaking as some people seem to insinuate. But now, anyone will publish him just because he's Gladwell.
it amazes me that people can deconstruct organic life as being just mechanical robots built with organic parts, then try to make their own organic robots that "live" (have biological processes, reproduce, etc.)
its not really fair to say that the burden rests on hackers and startup founders to promote/use small providers. small providers also have a responsibility to innovate and compete to provide superior products. It is the responsibility of end users to choose the application that suits their needs best.
If small providers aren't competitive with gMail, then gMail will maintain its large marketshare and continue to receive attention from its users.
first thing i wanted to do was to add some companies and find out what the highest salaries were.
unfortunately i had to hit next a bunch of times to get there. would be kind of cool if there were sort features or the option to control how many results per page.
can you refer me to the previously posted link to the source data you are using?
I love bluefin tuna. its delicious. knowing that i might not be able to eat it in a few years leaves me conflicted between increasing consumption for my personal enjoyment (at the cost of the burden of knowing that I'm accelerating bluefin toward its extinction) and decreasing personal consumption for the small moral victory that I at least tried to help keep a species on earth (at the cost of decreased sushi enjoyment).
If God wanted bluefin to survive, maybe He should have made them less tasty.
i'm definitely a believer that the "restaurant/food reviews" space is underdeveloped. Yelp and Citysearch have great reach, but I feel like its not giving me what I want.
incidentally, i still think somebody should write an article about what the community thinks is "Fair" compensation.
Skip past the "it depends" dialogue (which granted is important), and describe some border cases:
1. founders are jerks/morons, no faith in idea
2. founders are cool, but morons, no faith in idea
3. founders are cool, smart, misguided idea that might be able to be changed to work
4. founders are good + good idea
in case 1, i suspect most people only work for money
in case 4, i suspect some people will be willing to work for equity or money or some combination.
In case 1, the "compensation" including money probably has to be higher to put up with a crappy job.
In case 4, how much $ would it take in a "salary only" situation. In a split, how much equity and salary would you require?
2 and 3 are somewhere in between.
I've always been curious what people think fair compensation is for early stage startups.
agree. can't argue with the results, traffic, and revenue of Drudge report.
Design can mean a lot of things, but the kind of "design" i care about when presenting information can be evaluated independently of its "results, traffic, and revenue".
Results, maybe. Not sure why Jason makes such a point about the success of the site. Seems almost like "because its so popular, it must be good design".
McDonalds sells the most burgers, that doesn't mean it makes the best burgers.
Even from the "results" perspective, its hard to believe that the results are good BECAUSE of the design. If apple.com turned its page to all text, I think it'd still have great traffic. Unless you consider "being at the right place at the right time when there were no serious competitors" a critical design component of Drudge Report, I have to disagree with Jason's assessment.
started playing it recently when i got a new job and the guys at my new firm play it. fun as hell.