On: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker ...

[antt]

I would like some evidence that balanced teams are good.

Given that in higher dimensional finite spaces all the points are close to the edges of the space you would expect the most unbalanced teams to be the most successful ones because they can explore the parts of the solution space where you have the highest chance of finding a profitable solution.

Unix was not build by well rounded people. Xanadu was.

[wolco → antt]

The Unix team didn't interview each other the Xanadu team probably did.

Non-well rounded people would do less well if the decision was up to peers.