Problems vs Side Quests: Navigating Challenges Head-on (with Cristina Cordova, COO at Linear)
This New Way
How to Hire for Solutions
When you were at Notion and during the launch of their API, one of the things that you mentioned was that you always thought it was good to hire for solutions. Was this in the context of like, you know, people who are more like solutions oriented? That's right. Yeah. So I guess I would say that even early on in my own career as an individual contributor, I tended to have this kind of ability to like spot problems, right? And so eventually I learned that like, it's not good to be the person who brings the problems. You don't want to look for someone who is just great at spotting problems, but someone who can actually solve them.
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