Finding Undiscovered Talent

Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance, b... See more

We still use that as one of the primary things that we look for when we sit across the founder is if I weren't doing what I'm doing now, which I love doing this. If I was going to go look for a job, would this be one of the top 10 places that I would want to go work at? Can you convince me?

The combo of intellectual grandiosity and intense competitiveness was a perfect fit for me. It’s still hard to find today, in fact - many people have copied the ‘hardcore’ working culture and the ‘this is the Marines’ vibe, but few have the intellectual atmosphere, the sense of being involved in a rich set of ideas . This is hard to LARP - your fou... See more