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> "It was obviously bad that this culture existed the way it did, but it started because they valued creativity and the kind of people that were creative.” No,
by jelling 7y ago
> "It was obviously bad that this culture existed the way it did, but it started because they valued creativity and the kind of people that were creative.”
No, no, no. Being an asshole is not a signal you are creative. It's a signal of limited market options for the people that have to put up with you. In this case, there were a limited number of "cool" magazines in NYC to work at an extreme amounts of competition for the limited spots.
You know what group of people are crazy creative and not assholes? Session musicians. It's literally their job to show up and make up something good on the spot, but equally importantly, not derail the production with bullshit. And you know why? Because the people working with them have lots of other options for the most part.
- fl0wenol 7y agoI feel like there's a lot of parallels in tech, with the exception maybe being consultants <-> session musicians, in that they are often hired based on checklist criteria and ability to sell themselves.
- Traster 7y agoTakes me back to the 10x programmer converstaion on HN a day or two back. People are really bad at identifying what actually makes people productive and so you have a million people who not only think that being productive excuses being an asshole but that somehow being an asshole is inextricably linked with their productiveness. Imagine is we had a group of people who insisted they wear red jumpers because that's what 10x-ers do. Oh wait, that's literally fashion and that's literally a mechanism people in creative industries signal they're the right type of creative.