Sam Hinkie

Learn how it is you perceive the world and where you sort of think the edges are.

Oftentimes, I'm not particularly good, particularly on a first interview, at being hyper-scripted.

Oftentimes, I'll try to find something interesting to you and let's go to the bottom.

Let's go all the way to the bottom of what that thing is.

And by the way, it's fun for me.

I'll learn all sorts of stuff.

It'll be something random that I know nothing about.

And sometimes the bottom, honestly, is not very deep.

And sometimes the bottom, you can never get there.

You can just never get there.

That dynamic.

I like people who can zoom out and say, this is what I know, but I'm not even in the 70th percentile of this.

I'm just like above average.

I'm a 10th grader and you're a middle schooler on this topic, but let's not kid ourselves.

I'm not a PhD on this topic.

And so here's the things I understand and the things I very much over index towards people who sort of understand the limits to their own knowledge and say, I know this cold, but there's a whole nother level out there that I'm not at and that I respect some people that I think are at.

One of the things that each of the people mentioned to me was that they would say something and then you would ask some clarifying question on that thing.

And then just like you said, keep on drilling downwards.

What are the most interesting things you've seen revealed when you've done that with people in the past?

Is it just finding where the depth is or not finding it?