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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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      Apparently some professional firms are weaponizing imposter syndrome as a recruiting strategy: https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-still-working-70-hours-a-week … Yikes. "[T]hese individuals are immensely attractive to elite professional organizations because they are entirely self-motivating and self-disciplining."pic.twitter.com/NyXXkeqwPV

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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      Oh this seems like a useful thing to make explicit: Self-motivation and self-discipline are in great demand and are VERY RARE in the marketplace, at every level of e.g. educational credential, and therefore if you possess these capabilities you can demand a premium for them.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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      There are many well-credentialed successful smart people who need both very explicit marching orders and someone playing combination motivational coach and whip-cracker to achieve any goal with a longer than N day time horizon. That's pretty much the market expectation.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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      (Bosses are a technology for a reason.)

      2:47 AM - 4 Feb 2018
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        2. shawn swyx wang‏ @swyx 4 Feb 2018
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          can you elaborate on how bosses are a technology? This is an interesting line of thought I have not yet come across. it would be interesting to see if bosses can be made into a SaaS.

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        3. Noah Gibbs‏ @codefolio 4 Feb 2018
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          May I recommend reading Peter Drucker? He's one of the best-respected "managing technique" writers around. There's also Horowitz (The Hard Thing About Hard Things) and many more.

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        1. Beeminder‏ @bmndr 4 Feb 2018
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          Ooh, check out our new competitor that makes this super explicit: https://bossasaservice.life/ 

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        1. Andrea Contri‏ @AndreaContri 4 Feb 2018
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          Can you please elaborate or point to where this definition was discussed? Thanks!

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