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Right? I would be so happy to hire someone smarter than me who can teach me how to be better. Sure if someone was telling me my code was shitty, but their solut

• marshray 8y ago
  Seems like 'smart' is unrelated to the ability to give or receive feedback, or maybe even inversely correlated. Another aspect of this: Say person B is smarter than person A, and A realizes this. Now person C, who is smarter than person B, joins the team. A can usually tell that C is smarter than B, but he can't realistically judge by how much because both B and C are playing above his level. A consequence of this that when C joins the team, the working relationship with B will usually be established without issues. But A is likely to feel his own status is being disrupted because his uncertain perception of the relationship between B and C is going to challenge the status quo he had worked out with B. When A observes spirited discussion between B and C, A may have trouble recognizing healthy debate on the merits and may erroneously perceive it as some type of interpersonal conflict.