Tom Altman’s Wedia Conversation

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I caught this post today on 37signals with the “classic” all night coder may not be the idea person to hire if you are in need of some kung fu coding skills.  They think we should “hire family people“

That’s where hiring the family man or woman comes in as a cold bath of reality. When people have other obligations outside of work that they actually care more about than your probably-not-so-world-changing idea, the crutches are not available as an easy way out, and you’ll have to walk by the power of your good ideas and execution or you’ll fall fast and early. That’s a good thing!

So I think the point is to find a group of people who can really code…then, find the person who really needs to succeed.  But - those 20-year-olds can really hack and think way-way outside the norm.  Geeze - maybe it is just a gut call!  :)