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The taxonomy is interesting, but flawed. What founder wouldn't want a Child Prodigy on their team, someone who's 'going to found a company when they're older'?

The taxonomy is interesting, but flawed. What founder wouldn't want a Child Prodigy on their team, someone who's 'going to found a company when they're older'? Someone with hustle and chops but happy to be a junior member. Likewise who'd want an 'idiosyncratic' Academic? Ignoring the fact that massive tools like Scala are some academic's project. Or that Google was founded by two PhD students... Obvs the former is going to get many 'yes please' and the later 'umm, maybe'.

astrange 10y ago
> What founder wouldn't want a Child Prodigy on their team, someone who's 'going to found a company when they're older'? Someone with hustle and chops but happy to be a junior member. I think this is the same trap as the old "smart and gets things done" post from Rands. Basically it just implies the programmer reading it is a super-genius, so now they'll want to keep reading your blog in case you compliment them some more.