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[Raj Gulati @rgulati]

@pmarca Congrats Seeam

[Genius Thinking @GeniusGTX]

Elon Musk says he underweighted one trait in hiring and learned it the hard way.

For decades, talent acquisition built its scorecards on three pillars.

Skills. Experience. Cultural fit.

Resumes were ranked accordingly.

Then the bad hires happened anyway.

"Generally, I think it's a good idea to hire for talent and drive and trustworthiness."

Talent. Drive. Trustworthiness.

The first three felt obvious. The fourth had cost Musk careers.

Hires he'd defended. Hires he'd promoted. Hires he eventually fired.

Then Musk named the trait most rubrics skipped.

"And I think goodness of heart is important. I underweighted that at one point."

Musk named the trait: **goodness of heart**.

Polished. Predictable. Almost useless without it.

Musk, who had interviewed the first few thousand SpaceX hires himself, knew the longest training set.

A high-talent, high-drive, trustworthy employee with bad intent could ship more damage to a company over a quarter than a low-output engineer could in a decade, because the same competence that delivered the win also delivered the harm.

"Are they a good person? Trustworthy? Smart and talented and hard working?"

You can teach domain knowledge.

You can teach a process.

You cannot teach a person to be kind.

Or to mean well when nobody's watching.

After Musk made the correction, his hiring filters added a layer most rubrics never named.

Goodness of heart became a yes/no gate.

Musk, on the four traits that can't be unlearned:

"Those fundamental properties, you cannot change."

What's the trait you keep meeting in great hires that doesn't show up on any resume?

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— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Rodrygo has 11 goals in 30 Champions League matches ⚽️

#UCL

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

I want you to understand how wild this is.

The week before the House Judiciary Committee voted on reigning in big tech, Pelosi’s husband exercised a bullish Google bet.

They put an ITM 5 million dollar $GOOGL call.

This netted $5.3 million, at least.

https://t.co/z5ESL5BXbD

[Raj Gulati @rgulati]

@kp1001 @gopalkagarwal Modi and Bjp have blood on their hands. Cowards #ModiMadeDisaster #ResignPMmodi

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

We look at misleading claims about ways to treat falling oxygen levels - one of the symptoms of Covid-19. #COVID19India #COVIDEmergency
https://t.co/zvCFmapXRh

[FX Adventurer @kp1001]

@drharshvardhan I lost my dad to COVID this morning. I had to arrange oxygen, bed, ventilator- all through friends and family. Should I blame luck, you, BJP Govt - who is responsible for this? If you have the guts, give me a straight answer.

[Raj Gulati @rgulati]

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[Rodrigo Figueredo🇻🇪🇺🇦 @GeorgeArtwell]

@if_you_see_kaye @realDonaldTrump @DanPatrick my version 😁👇

[Sequoia Capital @sequoia]

We are deeply saddened to share that our founder Don Valentine has passed away. Our thoughts are with his family and with all those inspired by his pioneering vision and indelible impact. https://t.co/UB0YpxZ3zi

[Raj Gulati @rgulati]

@anuraggoel @getRender @AdrianDuong @Ralph7c2 @mish_mash_masha @notmahsa Congrats and kudos to the team. . Saw the demo. Amazing.

[Anand Babu Periasamy @abperiasamy]

Huge honor for @MinIO. Can't thank our community enough! #DevOps #aiml #BigData #cloud

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

– Feynman

[Chad Dunn @VXchad]

I'm very grateful for @tierpoint decision to entrust their hosted private cloud service to @VxRail in 40 of their data centers! Thank you!
TierPoint Selects Dell EMC VxRail to Launch New Hosted Private Cloud https://t.co/39Yml0mwzZ

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

https://t.co/HqvEnbSJN3

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

True story

[Ari Levy @levynews]

When my son was first diagnosed with leukemia 2.5 years ago, I taught him how to play Battleship in the hospital playroom.

He just beat me for the first time.

September is childhood cancer awareness month. https://t.co/5KvNq7peyw

[Neal Blaak @nblaak]

Jerry Chen of Greylock gives his take on how the market has changed to where companies now use multiple technologies and platforms to specifically fit there needs.

https://t.co/qMXGOKHw2U
@jerrychen @GreylockVC @stu @furrier @theCUBE #theCUBE #Greylock #VMware #VMworld

[Masters of Scale @mastersofscale]

You can leave overwhelming competition in the dust – but only if you know exactly what your advantage is. In our new episode, @ReidHoffman talks with @DrewHouston about how this played out at @Dropbox: https://t.co/5wprrxCM4L

[Raj Gulati @rgulati]

@Jay_Judkowitz @Jay_Judkowitz You will be missed at Google. Wishing you a wonderful journey. “follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, ....If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else" - Joseph Campbell

[Matt Asay @mjasay]

Had a great call with @gitlab CEO @sytses. Article(s) forthcoming but in the meantime chew on this: Sid suggested that <1% of the Global 2000 has embraced CI/CD best practices (tracing, feature flags, etc.). That spells lots of $$$ opportunity for leading DevOps vendors...