The orthogonality between directedness and motivation is crucial. Tech scales by preserving inner-directed operators while arming them with enough political fluency to influence strategy. Rare, but possible.
Exactly, and that inspiration comes because they’re optimizing for something beyond the room’s immediate incentives. That’s what makes the best technical voices worth listening to. They’re not working an angle : )
The orthogonality between directedness and motivation is crucial. Tech scales by preserving inner-directed operators while arming them with enough political fluency to influence strategy. Rare, but possible.
Tech especially is interesting because it has so many inner directed people -- why i find technologists so inspiring!
Exactly, and that inspiration comes because they’re optimizing for something beyond the room’s immediate incentives. That’s what makes the best technical voices worth listening to. They’re not working an angle : )