I understand the whole wanting to hire the best people sentiment, but this sentence really annoyed me:
> I finally understood why you should always try to hire someone better than you, why a “A player” hire another “A player”, instead of settling with a “B player”.
The guy the author described was a D player at best. There are plenty of great, yet not uber-genius programmers out there. B players. They're not as flashy, but they work hard, and get shit done. Stay away from the D players, fine. But don't knock the Bs.
> I finally understood why you should always try to hire someone better than you, why a “A player” hire another “A player”, instead of settling with a “B player”.
The guy the author described was a D player at best. There are plenty of great, yet not uber-genius programmers out there. B players. They're not as flashy, but they work hard, and get shit done. Stay away from the D players, fine. But don't knock the Bs.