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For greenfield projects, voracious and relentless talent is integral to building great products. Talent is general aptitude coupled with fast learning within th
by PartiallyTyped 3y ago
For greenfield projects, voracious and relentless talent is integral to building great products. Talent is general aptitude coupled with fast learning within the general domain.
Experience can often be detrimental as the person may be too biased to see what they are missing.
I have experienced this bias first hand at AWS. Experience can be blinding as it doesn’t let you explore new ideas.
- jltsiren 3y agoI didn't mean experience in general but experience with the specific project. If an organization loses everyone with that experience in a project, it's no longer their project. If they want to continue working on it, they must spend a lot of effort to understand it. I have more experience in the academia and with volunteer projects than in industry. Based on what I have seen, while talent does exist, it's rare. Success comes mostly from having the right mix of people working on the right project in the right environment. There are far more successful people and successful projects than truly talented people.