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In every professional environment that I have known, good habits have beaten genius, whether real genius (a very rare property) or assumed genius.

taneq 4y ago
In my experience, good habits beat genius 9 times out of 10 (maybe even 99 out of 100). That other time, genius recreates the entire playing field and good habits are left sitting around staring at each other trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
Supermancho 4y ago
> In every professional environment that I have known, good habits have beaten genius, whether real genius (a very rare property) or assumed genius. In every successful startup I worked at (3 of 20ish), I observed the opposite.
- urthor 4y ago
  How so? Curious on your perspective why professionalism and good work habits beat "genius" at startups. I would have assumed the opposite. My view of startup life was that it's about managing your money, your hiring/firing, your sales, and what you focus on. That's about good prioritization and productivity per minute.
  - heresie-dabord 4y ago
    Assuming the good faith of the poster, he or she may have worked with (a) real genius several times, or (b) with several real geniuses. (a) is more probable. Sustainable business start-up success of the non-banal order requires high general intelligence. It does exist. But 9 times out of 10 hard work and people skills will win.
    - Supermancho 4y ago
      > (a) real genius several times, Perceived genius (or more appropriately, assumed genius) would be more accurate. The people who are the least scrupulous, most creative, and technically competent are very successful. Startups aren't usually successful because of sweat hard work, but realizing a combination of opportunity and reach, rather than contracting as much software development labor as possible.

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In every professional environment that I have known, good habits have beaten genius, whether real genius (a very rare property) or assumed genius.

by heresie-dabord 4y ago

taneq 4y ago
In my experience, good habits beat genius 9 times out of 10 (maybe even 99 out of 100). That other time, genius recreates the entire playing field and good habits are left sitting around staring at each other trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
Supermancho 4y ago
> In every professional environment that I have known, good habits have beaten genius, whether real genius (a very rare property) or assumed genius. In every successful startup I worked at (3 of 20ish), I observed the opposite.
- urthor 4y ago
  How so? Curious on your perspective why professionalism and good work habits beat "genius" at startups. I would have assumed the opposite. My view of startup life was that it's about managing your money, your hiring/firing, your sales, and what you focus on. That's about good prioritization and productivity per minute.
  - heresie-dabord 4y ago
    Assuming the good faith of the poster, he or she may have worked with (a) real genius several times, or (b) with several real geniuses. (a) is more probable. Sustainable business start-up success of the non-banal order requires high general intelligence. It does exist. But 9 times out of 10 hard work and people skills will win.
    - Supermancho 4y ago
      > (a) real genius several times, Perceived genius (or more appropriately, assumed genius) would be more accurate. The people who are the least scrupulous, most creative, and technically competent are very successful. Startups aren't usually successful because of sweat hard work, but realizing a combination of opportunity and reach, rather than contracting as much software development labor as possible.