I've been thinking about Moneyball as a metaphor for how we should hire, for quite a while. In my opinion there's just a vast amount of talent out there that th

I've been thinking about Moneyball as a metaphor for how we should hire, for quite a while. In my opinion there's just a vast amount of talent out there that the tech industry is discarding. It's not like you have to take the dregs, it's the wine that the rest of the industry is pouring into the gutter. It's true that socially isolated young live-for-work white males are the most prepared to crank out code. But if we were just a little better at supporting different kinds of people, we'd have far more productive and healthy workplaces, while still being fun and weird. My company is getting there. Interviewing more for values and velocity versus having all the geek merit badges. Plus we're getting more geographically distributed.