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Aaron Erickson's avatar

"‘The upper tier literally feels like an old European aristocracy – and I’m saying this as someone who lives in the US! People help out their buddies, and are extremely suspicious of anyone not in their ‘club.’ It’s eye-opening to see how many people jump from company to company, taking their buddies with them. They all make lots of money, while keeping it exclusive and making sure it stays that way.’"

What has happened is, when you have only one or two roles open, and they are important, you get a lot more defensive, so you only hire "sure shots", people you know, people for whom their social capital and network capital will mean they have an extra incentive to do a decent job.

This is more of an incentive to do good work and not burn bridges, which I don't see as a bad thing.

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Andrew Lee's avatar

Hi Gergely, I have a writing process/workflow question for you. While reading this, I saw you linked to a prior post about how promotion driven development works.

I think there's a lot of great content throughout the years, so how do you know where this content lives, and how are you able to find it?

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