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I'd love to be the dumbest person in the room. I've found in my life that my largest leaps in development come when I throw myself in the deep end that is outsi
by jshen 16y ago
I'd love to be the dumbest person in the room. I've found in my life that my largest leaps in development come when I throw myself in the deep end that is outside my comfort zone. These days it's the primary thing I look for in a company. Are the people I'll be working with as good or better than may on average? If the answer is no then I'm not interested.
this of course assumes I want to be good at whatever the subject of the room is.
- HistoryInAction 16y agoIt was really, intensely frustrating at times. I was almost certainly a bottom 10%, if not 5%, at Caltech. It inspired me and pushed me into moving into a different, non-typical field for the average Caltech student where I could still be the best among the cohort. From another, less charitable perspective, Caltech proved to me that I couldn't be a top--or possibly even a very good--engineer, so I just gave up rather than struggling to get better.
- owyn 16y agoMy dad dropped out of Caltech in the 60's... he ended up getting a PhD and becoming a professor of asian history. :)
- WalterBright 16y agoFor my own experience, I loved being around people smarter than me. I don't recall ever being bored at Caltech.