There is a huge problem with the linked article. He asks the rhetorical question: "is hiring only the best practical" for every situation. The answer is of cour

There is a huge problem with the linked article. He asks the rhetorical question: "is hiring only the best practical" for every situation. The answer is of course no, you can get by with competent or very competent and don't need the absolute best in a field, which few can afford. But the question asked is a giant red herring that has nothing to do with his stated problem! His actual situation, as he explains, is not that he is trying to choose between the best and the merely excellent. He is trying to choose between the completely incompetent (the only applicants he has) and no one! That is an entirely different problem from deciding whether or not to hire the very best.