🦿 Lucian Marin I don't understand why companies hire mediocre engineers. Smart engineers don't even care that much about money, they care about making smart things. Why wouldn't you want to have the smartest product in the market? My guess is that mediocre companies hire mediocre people. I imagine if they hire someone smart, he or she will disturb their mediocracy environment.

🤔 John It's surprisingly hard to find, filter, and persuade the smart people to join your company. There is a lot more area under the bell curve near mediocrity than genius. But I think particularly modern companies ask for conformity of thought, social graces, success in office politics, etc. that optimizes away from the smartest. And the smartest are often off building something they think is important.