>> "I've worked with a lot of brilliant jerks in my life so it doesn't bother me, but it bothers a lot of other people, so I still try to avoid it." This is a

>> "I've worked with a lot of brilliant jerks in my life so it doesn't bother me, but it bothers a lot of other people, so I still try to avoid it." This is a good perspective. There's a gradient of intersections of levels of Brilliant and Jerk, and everyone has a cutoff point for Jerk where Brilliant stops being worth it. If you optimize for Brilliant and try to limit Jerk, it's probably easier to referee between a Jerk and someone with a different tolerance when they have to work together since there's less distance between tolerance levels.