The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)

At the start he’d thought that hiring only effective altruists created a special advantage—everyone in the company would trust each other’s motives, and so no one would need to waste time and energy doing the many things that people did to create trust among themselves. They could skip the one-on-one meetings, and the eye contact and the firm hands

“Initially it felt like they were playing a game. They were all outliers in terms of their intelligence and the way they approached the world.” Soon enough, he saw that it wasn’t a game. They were all completely and utterly sincere. They judged the morality of any action by its consequences and were living their life to maximize those consequences.