Considering all we know about evolution, cognitive psychology, game theory, and many other disciplines, the way we hire people in 2022 is truly primitive.

And I’m saying this from the viewpoint of the employer, not the candidate.

1/ I wish my parents had a bookshelf full of the books I’m reading right now as an adult and told me “Here. You must read these. They will open your mind.”
But the truth is that I wouldn’t have understood or appreciated those books back then.

2/ You must be ready for certain ideas. That’s why nobody should stop reading once we reach the employment age.

Yes, some of us keep reading novels. And some others keep reading books about the subjects that matter in their line of work.

3/ But very few continue reading about big ideas that open the minds and offer new perspectives about the world like in school.

4/ Big ideas that were mostly inaccessible or obscure during the first 20 years of our life are there waiting to be discovered and change how we see the world.

The most precious time to learn is during adulthood. Don’t waste the opportunity.

🙂 https://t.co/WEBEOdQmDz

Finland’s president talks of ‘a new era’ as he launches its bid to join NATO.

https://t.co/AU1BMMmRNO

@renegadesilicon @benedictevans This is Anish Kapoor’s “Shooting into the Corner”. Probably a 2008-2009 version.

https://t.co/VCTALSYiHT

Always -always- remember that expertise in one field doesn’t automatically extend to another field. Somebody your admire for a quality or a POV is not a superhero in all other aspects of life. In fact, he/she might be quite wrong in those.

Don’t let expertise intimidate you.

From “The Selfish Gene”, a 40yo masterpiece about natural selection and human behaviour.

Apply this to the invasion of #Ukraine. https://t.co/8NuXIS4HmU