How I Hire Programmers Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart is inefficient: non-smart people get stuff done by doing it the hard way and working with them is slow and frustrating. Someone you can’t work with, you can’t work with.
A Challenge to Kyle Steed by Chris Wallace Kyle, you are a designer. I am a designer. You like to eat beef jerky. I like to eat filet mignon. You like to skip showers every other day. I like to be clean and use deodorant. You look like the unabomber. I look like Jack Bauer… I could go on. But I think you get the point.