Paul Graham talks about hiring people who aren't hapless: http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html (2009) Which I agree with

Paul Graham talks about hiring people who aren't hapless: http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html (2009) Which I agree with. I've worked with people who started crying at the first sign of trouble. I've worked with people who wanted to make every single encounter into a fight. Both of these are completely toxic to a start-up. I really worry, though, about these hiring practices that are just psychological tests designed by non-psychologists, like this: Hire people who emailed you a dozen times before you had a chance to reply I usually stop emailing after 3 or 4 times, figuring that that 4th email already made me look desperate. I've said it before and I'll say it again: a lot of these "how to find good employees" are as rigorous as dating advice in the latest issue of Cosmo.