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This is a silly analysis. I reject the premise that 10% of people are the hard workers, held back by the 90%. This is someone who believes they are part of the
by rybosome 4y ago
This is a silly analysis. I reject the premise that 10% of people are the hard workers, held back by the 90%.
This is someone who believes they are part of the 10% failing to see the value of the 90%, arrogantly mistaking their own ignorance for insight.
- memish 4y agoMost people would reject it. That's understandable. John Carmack and George Hotz have a different perspective.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoYears ago I read an article about a math teacher in Hungary, I think, a century or so ago who generated dozens of world class mathematicians. Were those students special? Yes. Could the math teacher have done the same in another country with other students? Probably. Corporate structures, job roles and freedoms, and management, have a pronounced impact on how productive individual employees are. It's not just the employee's traits themselves. It is true that US culture tends to place responsibility on individuals to manage their lot in life. This should be the case, but I think the US goes overboard. "You're responsible for your performance as an employee, I'm not responsible for what I did to make your performance as an employee easy or difficult. Except, of course, I am responsible for unleashing the talent of the arbitrarily chosen top 10%."
- rybosome 4y agoI don’t recall Carmack regularly culling 90% of his workforce. Who is going to do the tasks that Carmack is too smart and important to do?
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