Sholto Douglas

How was...

What was notable about, for example, is James Bradbury as somebody who's, usually this kind of stuff is like farmed out to recruiters or something like that.

Whereas James is like somebody whose time is worth like hundreds of millions of dollars.

You know what I mean?

That thing is very bottlenecked on that kind of person taking the time, almost in an aristocratic tutoring sense of finding and then getting up to speed.

And it seems like if it works this well, it should be done at scale.

It should be the responsibility of key people to...

You know what I mean?

And actively looking on open source repositories or on forums or whatever for potential people like this.

Yeah.

I mean, James is like Twitter injected into his brain.

Yeah.

One of the other things that I want to emphasize for a potential slice of the audience that would be relevant to is...

There's this sense that the world is legible and efficient.

Companies have these go to jobs.google.com or jobs.whatevercompany.com and you apply and there's the steps and they will evaluate you efficiently on those steps.

Whereas

Not only from the story, it seems like often that's not the way it happens.

That's in fact, it's good for the world that that's not often how it happens.

Like it is important to look at, were they able to like write an interesting technical blog post about their research or like making interesting contributions?

Yeah, I want you to like riff on that.