[sagichmal]

"People like [the OP]" are in my experience consistently better at what they do than the sort of folks which Coinbase is now apparently soliciting.

[slownews45]

The folks pulling the late nights on projects and delivering great results - normally the issue is to get them to stop talking about work all the time (happy hour?!) - not to get them to start talking about a social justice issue around microaggressions or whatever!

[sagichmal]

I’m not sure why you think people who care about justice draw that energy from the same pool that motivates their work, as if it’s a zero-sum calculus. It isn’t. People who think about things systemically tend to apply that perspective in all of their practices. And that’s the value.

[jmeister]

Exactly the opposite in my experience. The top competent/productive people I’ve worked with were too obsessed with their craft to even think about politics.

[blitzar]

In my considerable experience, I have seen true outliers on both sides of the specturm; truly high perfomers to total fuckwits.

There is 0 correlation.

[native_samples]

Brian disagrees, he opened his discussion of the benefits by saying: "it has allowed us to hire some of the best talent from organizations where employees are fed up with politics, infighting, and distraction".

[sagichmal]

This is definitely not true (shrug) Attrition has more than doubled and most engineering teams are critically understaffed.