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It's not a matter of "It's hard to keep up with the brilliant folks". It's that they are often actively destructive to the productivity of the team. Hence my co
by beat 11y ago
It's not a matter of "It's hard to keep up with the brilliant folks". It's that they are often actively destructive to the productivity of the team. Hence my co-founder's comment.
Brilliant people can often be easygoing and a great benefit to their teams. They do it by moving the whole team forward. They're never 10x individually in that case, but they may elevate a 3x team to 5x.
edit: Find me an engineer who is both brilliant and humble, and I'll bend over backwards to hire that person.
- eonw 11y agoive only met one in my life, and i wouldn't recommend him to anyone... if he was available and i could afford him i would in do it a heartbeat first. he was a 10x with more diplomacy and kindness then any co-worker ive ever had. rare breed indeed.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoHm. It could be both. And probably the 'cowboys' we've all experienced are not all brilliant. It doesn't take brilliance to torpedo a team. And I suggest that 3X a small team may be less than 10X the one person. Maybe a better team is one that supports a brilliant developer, making a deliverable out of their prototype. That's another way to manage it.