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I’ve never met a top talent person that would just sit around all day waiting to get tasked. Maybe this is just a standard filter. Hire people that fit the top

I’ve never met a top talent person that would just sit around all day waiting to get tasked. Maybe this is just a standard filter. Hire people that fit the top talent criteria. Then just wait and see what the accomplish. If the answer is nothing interesting, you counsel them out.

matwood 4y ago
It’s hyperbole of course, but more like work on inconsequential things. Big tech has sucked up talent to both prevent competitors from finding it and to stop them from starting their own companies. I expect these layoffs to lead to the next big tech in a decade.
- nr2x 4y ago
  Next week at this rate!
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > more like work on inconsequential things I’m going to disagree with you on a definition basis. Top talent doesn’t stay still. Even if it once was top, it degrades. But more fundamentally, bullshitting isn’t a common attribute among people with and utilising a talent. (Apart from a talent for bullshitting. Go away.) FAANG wanted to do this. But they wound up with legions of nonperformers while the top talent found other places.
  - matwood 4y ago
    > Top talent doesn’t stay still. I agree eventually, but top (for some definition) talent are still people. Pay someone a lot of money to work on yet another chat app, and most people can convince themselves it's worthwhile for a time. Most people are risk adverse and if someone is good enough to get a job at a FAANG, that's the least risky way to end up financially secure.
nr2x 4y ago
Why do you think AI startups are coming out of the woodwork? Tons are from Google who wanted to ship and got frustrated. So it is observable imho.
- nl 4y ago
  Google not shipping things is very different to just paying people to sit in meetings.
  - nr2x 4y ago
    Yet functionally identical.
- anonuser123456 4y ago
  Those aren't the people who were sitting idle waiting for someone to give them something to do.
anothernewdude 4y ago
If there is no direction from the company all the top people I know would be building something for themselves.

matwood 4y ago

It’s hyperbole of course, but more like work on inconsequential things. Big tech has sucked up talent to both prevent competitors from finding it and to stop them from starting their own companies. I expect these layoffs to lead to the next big tech in a decade.

nr2x 4y ago
Next week at this rate!
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> more like work on inconsequential things I’m going to disagree with you on a definition basis. Top talent doesn’t stay still. Even if it once was top, it degrades. But more fundamentally, bullshitting isn’t a common attribute among people with and utilising a talent. (Apart from a talent for bullshitting. Go away.) FAANG wanted to do this. But they wound up with legions of nonperformers while the top talent found other places.
- matwood 4y ago
  > Top talent doesn’t stay still. I agree eventually, but top (for some definition) talent are still people. Pay someone a lot of money to work on yet another chat app, and most people can convince themselves it's worthwhile for a time. Most people are risk adverse and if someone is good enough to get a job at a FAANG, that's the least risky way to end up financially secure.

nr2x 4y ago

Why do you think AI startups are coming out of the woodwork? Tons are from Google who wanted to ship and got frustrated. So it is observable imho.

nl 4y ago
Google not shipping things is very different to just paying people to sit in meetings.
- nr2x 4y ago
  Yet functionally identical.
anonuser123456 4y ago
Those aren't the people who were sitting idle waiting for someone to give them something to do.

anothernewdude 4y ago

If there is no direction from the company all the top people I know would be building something for themselves.