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Right. The application process appears to openly prioritize marketing skills, which puts it in serious conflict with the stated goal.

• wolfgke 8y ago
  > Right. The application process appears to openly prioritize marketing skills, which puts it in serious conflict with the stated goal. Exactly. To quote [1]: "The world is full of extraordinarily creative people that are struggling to fit in.". If the candidate is struggling to fit in, he/she is probably not "the popular kid" or a highly successful self-marketer. Another quote from [1]: "Our goal is to build a decentralized network of young, creative and exceptionally motivated outsiders who don’t fit in to the traditional system.". I personally would claim that such self-marketing is exactly what the "traditional system" is (among other things) strongly about. So making it a popularity contest is opposed to the self-stated/self-imposed goals. [1] https://pioneer.app/ https://pioneer.app/