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niels_olson on June 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Great People Are Overrated

I would take the 1,000 and come up with 199 other projects, five of which would be oversight of the other 194, and two of them would be to come up with crazy new ideas. Monitor the progress and I guarantee I can find another 5 brilliant programmers in there. Meanwhile, I'll iterate over 1000 projects and blow your socks off with 5.

geon on June 21, 2011 [–]

What you are saying is you want booth the brilliant 5 and the average 1000.

niels_olson on June 21, 2011 | [–]

No, what I'm saying is I have a bit more faith in humanity. How extraordinarily pessimistic to think people couldn't be more productive in other circumstances. It does tend to fly in the face of anyone who ever moved to California.

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