Sam Hinkie

And if this isn't the best fit, isn't it in everyone's interest to get to that as soon as possible?

Not six months after you're hired or six years down the line, you feel like you wasted a big chunk of your life doing this thing.

But instead, you really want to

see where it can go.

I'm trying to understand how people think more than I am to understand what it is they actually know, because they can, if you can get to that essence, if you can get to that, then it's much easier to predict sort of where they'll go.

If you give them new infrastructure to stand on top of, or you give them a different set of colleagues, you're like, oh my gosh, they could get up this learning curve massively because that's how they think about how to learn in the real world.

You've obviously met a ton of people across domains and fields.

What percentage of people do you think have the quality?

I don't know what to call the quality, but the quality that makes you really interested in spending more time with them.

And how has that changed over time?

How rare is it for you to meet someone and just be sort of awed by them?

Two things are true.

I have a very high bar.

People that actually get in my tribe over a long period of time that I feel like are amazing on one dimension or another, and we really resonate.

That's a very rare combination.

If you're lucky, you find one or two of those people a year that you sort of add to your group that you go through life with.

On the other hand, I'm so aggressive with my time and how I spend it that if I've chosen to spend time with you,

It's no front.

It's the thing that I thought was the single best use of my time for this 30 minutes or this hour.

You're getting all of it.