Best predictor of success: Innate ability to allocate time properly.
Most commonly seen in the degenerate case where (a) you work on something you're interested in and (b) you have good taste in interestingness. In this case you don't even realize you're allocating time.
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Also conspicuous with high IQ executives who under perform.
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Also known as the "professional CEO"
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(b) "good taste in interestingness" is a key determinant in hiring for us. The very best developers intuitively pick things to work on that move us forward in ways I hadn't anticipated. It's fantastic!
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I think this is related to the phenomenon where supposedly application-less mathematical explorations always turn out later to have important applications.
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100 reply there
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that or just lucky be what the world has been waiting for
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