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Passionate people are emotionally fickle. They dont make as good hires as you think. The ups and downs in productivity, engagement and team cooperation make the

Passionate people are emotionally fickle. They dont make as good hires as you think. The ups and downs in productivity, engagement and team cooperation make them unreliable over the long term. 90%+ of passionate people cant see through long term projects due to burn out or boredom. I prefer people who come in to do a job, get paid, then go out to their families or party or whatever they do that's not work. They keep themselves in check, enjoy stability and take nothing personal. Honestly, they're adults compared to the passionate kids you have to babysit. Passionate people are easy to hire because they're cheap. Dangle a carrot and they'll jump as high as you want. Adults demand stacks of money to build a tower to reach the carrot. Source: I've subcontracted and hired folks in both tech and infrastructure.

andrewstuart 6y ago
>> Passionate people are emotionally fickle. They dont make as good hires as you think. The ups and downs in productivity, engagement and team cooperation make them unreliable over the long term. This is prejudice, nothing more. In the literal sense of the word "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience". You simply can't say what people are like in advance. EDIT: a more appropriate definition: preconceived judgment or opinion.
- NoOneNew 6y ago
  What part of I've hired both kinds of people didnt you get? That's considered actual experience. Edit: Not preconceived either. This developed after almost 7 years of hiring people directly for me. People I had to then work with everyday. I dont have a hiring manager.
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  - lazide 6y ago
    That would apply if you were thinking of rehiring those same people, but not if you were to hire someone new you had no exposure to right? Otherwise, it is pretty much the textbook definition?
    - aaron-santos 6y ago
      People use proxies for latent variables all the time. And you can absolutely get better results over uninformative priors.
crispyambulance 6y ago
> Adults demand stacks of money to build a tower to reach the carrot. Such "adults" also check out whenever there's a problem they can't immediately see how to solve. They lack curiosity and creativity and are definitely NOT interested in mentoring juniors and activities like onboarding. On the other hand, these folks ARE good at stuff like project management, ERP's, working with vendors like Oracle and SAP. To be fair, everything I just wrote is merely a crass characterization-- just like everything you wrote. You really need both kinds of people to make an organization run smoothly. You need people who enjoy the nose-to-the-grindstone stuff and you need people that are dreamers.

andrewstuart 6y ago

>> Passionate people are emotionally fickle. They dont make as good hires as you think. The ups and downs in productivity, engagement and team cooperation make them unreliable over the long term. This is prejudice, nothing more. In the literal sense of the word "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience". You simply can't say what people are like in advance. EDIT: a more appropriate definition: preconceived judgment or opinion.

NoOneNew 6y ago
What part of I've hired both kinds of people didnt you get? That's considered actual experience. Edit: Not preconceived either. This developed after almost 7 years of hiring people directly for me. People I had to then work with everyday. I dont have a hiring manager.
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- lazide 6y ago
  That would apply if you were thinking of rehiring those same people, but not if you were to hire someone new you had no exposure to right? Otherwise, it is pretty much the textbook definition?
  - aaron-santos 6y ago
    People use proxies for latent variables all the time. And you can absolutely get better results over uninformative priors.

crispyambulance 6y ago

> Adults demand stacks of money to build a tower to reach the carrot. Such "adults" also check out whenever there's a problem they can't immediately see how to solve. They lack curiosity and creativity and are definitely NOT interested in mentoring juniors and activities like onboarding. On the other hand, these folks ARE good at stuff like project management, ERP's, working with vendors like Oracle and SAP. To be fair, everything I just wrote is merely a crass characterization-- just like everything you wrote. You really need both kinds of people to make an organization run smoothly. You need people who enjoy the nose-to-the-grindstone stuff and you need people that are dreamers.