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> You can not escape that no matter what you do.

The point is you can.

Choosing not to do is probably more important than being able to do.

Organizations are reflected in the products they create. We shape our teams and thereafter they shape us.

This doesn't mean brain teasers or other arbitrary metrics with standard bell curve distribution so you can pick the statistical outliers and claim you've done this. That's totally wrong because that's not what you're fitting.

Those are filters that produce stochastic results with merely the statistical properties of these rules of thumb.

If you're looking for a programmer, here's a better test: think if some famous programmer walked in and sat down to do your process. Could they pass? If the answer is "dice roll", meaning you'd say, turn down Rob Pike or Larry Wall, then you're doing it wrong.

As far as X, Musk is insane and drunk with power, that is not this.



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