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Who cares how much talent you have if nothing works. Perhaps they have too much talent and not enough meat and potatoes.



"Nothing works" is certainly not an accurate description of the reality (It's more like 80-90% works just great). As for who cares, your colleagues certainly do (there are limits on how much "potato and meat" you can mix with talent before messing the recipe up). Also note that the companies we are talking about here are not in the technology business, they are in the empire business, so they certainly care about who gets to help control the empire and who defects to a competitor.


I mean they're printing money from their ad services so something must be working




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