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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. stucchio‏ @stucchio 4 Feb 2018
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      Meanwhile other firms "weaponize" independence, conformity, family friendliness, drive to change the world or other personality traits to attract different cohorts of employee. This clustering seems good to me. It means everyone works at an employer suited to their personality.

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    3. stucchio‏ @stucchio 4 Feb 2018
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      I'm more concerned by attempts to make *every* employer well suited to one personality type. I probably wouldn't like working at Google; they seem more tolerant of workplace violence than I prefer. I'm fine with that if it stays confined to google. I just won't work there.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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      I’m pretty OK with firms specializing in offering a particular environment but I’m closer to a benign paternalist than you are, and specializing in offering an environment to target employees’ weaknesses feels intrinsically icky to me.

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 4 Feb 2018
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          Like you can serve quinoa in the cafeteria or you can serve chocolate cake but if you have a meeting titled How Do We Recruit More Anorexics And Push Those Buttons Of Theirs then something has gone deeply off the rails.

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        3. stucchio‏ @stucchio 4 Feb 2018
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          Is your complaint simply the lack of euphemism and misdirection? I like the honesty. Fitness tip: cultivate body dysmorphia. Look at self in mirror after shower and self criticize if pecs are smaller than Jason Momoa's. Channel self hatred into pushups/bench.

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          I don’t consider “imposter syndrome” a weakness. I consider it the opposite. Even the world’s best musicians get nervous before a performance. If they don’t then it’s probably time to quit. Casals still practiced at age 95 because he felt he was still making progress.

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        2. stucchio‏ @stucchio 4 Feb 2018
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          Are they "intrinsic weaknesses"? They seem to be the right kind of traits that get you a high paying job at McKinsey, following which you eventually transition to a high powered job elsewhere while regularly tapping into the McKinsey Alumni network. This is bad?

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          I could understand such paternalism if it were directed at academia. Cult indoctrination to make you think there's no life outside the tournament, and no one even tells you when you lose the tournament. Here's an adjunct prof job for $5000/semester.

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