> if I operated an auto repair shop, and I wanted my shop's "ethos" to be "we do high-quality repairs on cars", one of the primary ways to do that would be to h

> if I operated an auto repair shop, and I wanted my shop's "ethos" to be "we do high-quality repairs on cars", one of the primary ways to do that would be to hire smart, already-experienced mechanics. And it would seem strange to me if people wrote blog posts saying that the work of those mechanics didn't count towards my "ethos" because they were already good at their jobs; that's why I hired them! FWIW, that doesn't seem strange to me. Hiring smart, already-experienced mechanics is a input to your ethos; presumably you hope that they will make the shop's culture better-suited to doing high-quality repairs. A example of a output of that culture would be if you also hired young, inexperienced mechanics, and they learned (presumably from their aforementioned seniors) to do high-quality repairs and went on to be the next generation's smart, already-experienced mechanics.