The strongest engineers I've hired didn't have the most impressive résumés.
They were the ones building side projects in their spare time, asking me about our architecture choices, and genuinely curious about problems they'd never solved before.
Here's why curiosity beats credentials: 🧵

Related bit about curiosity from Jony Ive:

“Being truly open, inquisitive, and curious has become the very basis for all that I do now and how I think. Having a genuine relish for being surprised and for learning is fundamental to creating.”

“Crucially, the delight and joy of curiosity and learning can temper our fear of doing something completely new… and you find yourself actually listening. To listen well means you need to be quiet. Great ideas can come from the quietest voice, and I really worry how many good ideas I have missed because I wasn’t listening or I couldn’t hear a thing for the usual deluge of opinion. I think it would be great to resist the urge to fill every moment of every minute with opinions and to listen.”

Jony Ive explains why curiosity is fundamental to creating

“Being truly open, inquisitive, and curious has become the very basis for all that I do now and how I think. Having a genuine relish for being surprised and for learning is fundamental to creating.”

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Related bit about curiosity from Jony Ive:

“Being truly open, inquisitive, and curious has become the very basis for all that I do now and how I think. Having a genuine relish for being surprised and for learning is fundamental to creating.”

“Crucially, the delight and joy of curiosity and learning can temper our fear of doing something completely new… and you find yourself actually listening. To listen well means you need to be quiet. Great ideas can come from the quietest voice, and I really worry how many good ideas I have missed because I wasn’t listening or I couldn’t hear a thing for the usual deluge of opinion. I think it would be great to resist the urge to fill every moment of every minute with opinions and to listen.”

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