Excellent @duncangrahamnyc piece on the nuance and importance of understanding people.
"When I started East Rock 15 years ago, my mission was to find and invest with the most talented investors in the world."
"When I started East Rock 15 years ago, my mission was to find and invest with the most talented investors in the world."
"When I try to figure out what game I’m playing, I see that for the last 25 years I have been playing a game of strategy applied to people, a game where over and over I try to answer the question “what’s going on here, with this human?”"
"What most people think of as the hard parts of hiring—asking just the right question that catches the candidate off guard, defining the role correctly, assessing the person’s skills—are less important than a more basic task: how do you see someone, including yourself, clearly?"
"You really can’t see another person clearly unless you can first see yourself clearly: both of you are together creating the interaction you are in."
"Seeing people clearly—or at least more clearly—matters not just when finding the “best” hire, but in identifying the best role for them. Even looking at those of us who are lucky enough to have a high degree of choice about what we do with our work, ...
... I’ll bet that as few as 20% of us are in the seat that best optimizes our talents and skills at any given time—the seat that makes us feel at home in the world. That’s not good for the 80%, and it’s not good for their teams either."
"Haidt advises imagining your conscious mind as the rider and your unconscious drives as the elephant—powerful and willful and ultimately inclined to take the rider where the elephant wants to go most of the time. ...
... The key insight is that the rider is not always a reliable witness about the elephant they ride." 
"One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction.
I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical."
I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical."
"I now believe that there is no such thing as an A player in the abstract, across all time, in whatever ecosystem they end up in."
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