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Reference

• Anonymous answers: if you were 18 again, what would you do differently this time? (And 3 other questions.)

Notes

On Hiring

• "Suboptimal hiring is just about the worst mistake you can make"
• "One unhappy, disgruntled person can poison an organization"
• Learn to write simply and clearly and start a blog to practice
• Get really good at networking and learning people's names
• Actively learn project and people management

On Idealism vs Realism

• "When I was really young, I used to look at the ideal - and I would try and let that guide me to a final outcome. So if I didn't like the current voting system, I'd think about the ideal voting system and try and get everyone to adopt it. Same with political systems. But I've become a little more of a realist as I've gotten older - you need to take the world as it is. I don't think you should just look at a political system in abstract and try to assess how good it is, but look at the actual political system and ask why you want to change it, and what's the best way to make steady progress to do so - and the result may not look very much like your ideal world. If you're focused on ending factory farming, for example, your ideal scenario might be that no one has the preference to eat meat anymore because they find the very idea of eating meat horrifying. But in reality, plant-based and clean meat might end up being your best chance of success - even if you think they don't have a place in the ideal world."