[jonny_storm]

Adam Savage once said he distrusted anyone that hadn't failed, and I share this sentiment. It's likely that, if you haven't failed spectacularly, then you've not had the opportunity to internalize the lessons that come from failure: humility, caution, compassion, self-awareness, respect for evidence.

If you've already hired talent without this experience, then you'll either need to carefully craft an opportunity for them to fail or wait for them to do so all on their own. The latter is, for me, intolerable, and I would rather provide the proudest among them vague architectural tasks that pit their design sense against that of their coworkers. Being in charge of a design that's perpetually torn apart by your fellow implementors is good practice, and it may even reduce the total hubris of the group.