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This is one of the great examples of survivorship bias. You start to think that all of the most brilliant people are jerks, but the reality is that all of the n
by matt_wulfeck 9y ago
This is one of the great examples of survivorship bias. You start to think that all of the most brilliant people are jerks, but the reality is that all of the non-brilliant jerks were fired long ago for crossing the line. The only ones left are very very valuable -- and still should fired if they can't play nice.
- notyourday 9y ago... which is how you end up in a company with mediocre engineers, developing mediocre products, sliding into mediocre abyss. But at least while making those mediocre salaries they can all hate those "brilliant jerks" that they fired.
- matt_wulfeck 9y agoFunny you say this while commenting on an engineer's opinion from Netflix. Believe it or not you can fire jerks and still be technologically innovative.