Is this because it actually signals the opposite of dedication, or...? "I'm gonna work here for a few years and then I'm trading up" vs. finding a strong cultural fit & growing with the co.?
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Replying to @LAForeverHall @BLatro
no, trading up is totally normal and sensible, it's how climbing the ladder works in this era. on the contrary I'd be nervous about it because it signals dedication, to career, to a particular lifestyle, etc
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someone who goes from one of the big five to another, then to a hot late-stage startup, then starts looking at early-stage startups, is in my mind worryingly conventional in absence of contrary evidence
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in fact anything that signals lack of dedication to conventional institutions is a positive signal to me because part of my goal here is to collect people who don't fit in well anywhere else
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Replying to @alicemazzy @BLatro
I think I understand. People with conventional behavior are less likely to be the unique and creative thinkers you're looking for, whereas dropouts and people who quit
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Replying to @LAForeverHall @BLatro
mm smart and creative is table stakes. the thing I am really after is drive, audacity, the firebrand nature. people who don't really fit anywhere in the world
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in a couple years once we have initial kinks worked out I want to be able to promise mission and purpose and instruction in a new practice of engineering that will give its practioners outsize ability to reshape the world
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ultimately if our way of working really is so different and so powerful, we build a community and culture that is bigger than any one company
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where some people stay in our orgs, others start their own, but we all stay enmeshed in each other and our influence compounds into the stratosphere
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imagine the dynamics that fuel an artistic movement, the hunger that motivates a pirate band, and every member is leveraging their productivity at some crazy multiple working on whatever frontier tech they're most obsessed with. that's what I wanna build
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I love this whole thread, and that your ambitions are larger than a legal fiction. Somehow I have faith that you can realize your artistic vision. Pick up a strong aura of reality bending potential from you.
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