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Yes, because technology is ultimately people and teams. The U.S. should hold on to talent rather than drive engineers out through immigration raids
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Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game.
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Marco Rubio is struggling to hire talented staff and is settling for loyalists who follow his instructions instead.Their words
This suggests that Rubio is having some difficulties hiring anyone with talent and is settling for a putz who will do what Rubio tells him to do on Latin America.
The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com
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27 August
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What we do know is that the actual Elon Musk that we have to live with on this here timeline was flagrantly incompetent in government, contrary to Noah's previous predictions.
13 August
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People tend to overestimate their own talent and underestimate the structural advantages that amplify their success.Their words
we are systematically likely to overestimate our own individual awesomeness, and to underestimate the external power asymmetries that magnify our voices.
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Success in cultural and professional fields is driven more by chance and path dependence than by talent.Their words
much cultural success is stochastic (the experimental evidence suggests that talent only moderately predicts success in culture markets), and that path dependence shapes chances of success
29 July
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the first is talent density was incredibly important. That was the the core thing to bet on and um, like talent density is something that compounds naturally. Like the more talented people you have the more of the most most talented people want to join you.
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From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It does feel like we have to be more more explicit about the types of people and talent that tend to thrive at Netflix versus other companies like some of the frontier labs.
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Well, the talent density is the non-negotiable. Like you have to start with that. If you don't have that, you can't get to a place where you have confidence in decision-making at all levels of the organization, allowing people to take risks and innovate quickly.
9 July
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The more we know – the more we insist on being sure – the more doors we close.
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It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.
13 April
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Most people hear that story and think: he must have lacked talent, or commitment. I don’t think that’s the right conclusion. I think he was never taught how second language acquisition actually works, and so he spent hundreds of hours doing the wrong things.
1 April
From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I look at um the talent base and I think it is best for us to create opportunity for people to keep on growing with fresh new challenges within the company because if we don't do that they would leave the company
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when you have team A, team A will just want to hire more A level players and yeah, they just intolerant of anybody who's not performing,
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the best of the best still get offer from us because if we don't hire those folks today, what senior engineer will we have for yeah years from now, right? You have to feed the talent pipeline
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We didn't go to other places because of cost savings like that. We go there because we have need and we have world class talent
23 March
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So you get this rapid, incredible great talent, rapid innovation because of open source and just, you know, the nature of friends, and, and insane competition. Among the company, what emerges is incredible stuff. And so this is the fastest innovating country in the world today
11 March
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Our dumb economy might prize a certain talent more during a certain period of time or place, but that doesn't mean you should.
12 February
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Industrial policy almost inevitably consumes more skilled labor and reduces what we can produce.
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The real cost of the CHIPS Act is the technical talent it ties up, not its fifty-billion-dollar price tag.Their words
The CHIPS Act might still be a positive, but the cost is almost certainly many times the $50 billion price tag.
7 January
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary ProductsTheir words
The sequel to Inspired, this book explores what the best product companies have in common. “Most people think it’s because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products.”
28 September 2025
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Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.Their words
Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
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8 September 2025
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But with education and intelligence, we’re unwilling to countenance the simple reality that some people are better equipped to succeed and some worse.
23 July 2025
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And Meta right now are not at the frontier. Maybe they'll manage to get back on there and it's probably rational what they're doing from their perspective because they're behind and they need to do something. But I think there's more important things than just money.
20 January 2025
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President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent — he was a natural businessman
1 November 2024
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As every population ages, countries will have to compete for migrants rather than choose freely among them.Their words
One more word of caution: the world is a closed and shrinking box. As all populations age, competition for talent will only intensify.
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Anyone can learn a language, and what separates those who do is method rather than talent.Their words
Everybody can learn a language if they know how.
16 May 2024
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