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Burnout isn't about working too much, it's about moral injury: watching or participating in betrayals of your ethics or values. Larger gaps between stated and practiced values create more burnout. - @phire at #Monktoberfest


Values are a much stronger indication than culture fit of what the person will do when there is no norm yet. Instead of culture fit, look for values alignment. Not the marketing version of the values, though, the ones they actually hold.

A key logger company, for example, cites independent thought, transparency, and trust as the values underlying their decision to track everything done on company hardware. - @phire at #Monktoberfest


Culture fit in individuals makes for worse business decisions; you just won't have the appropriate perspectives represented consistently if you're hiring for homogeneity instead of skill. Building culture as an organization, however, is critical to building the safe spaces where you can reap the benefits of that diversity WITHOUT crushing employees souls! (okay, not too much)

Culture has several components: Norms are the things you do, and values are why you do it - @phire at #Monktoberfest


Third talk of the day at #Monktoberfest will be @phire sharing about values. Business school mentions things like listing your hobbies in search of affinity; the mandatory HR class, however, didn't say to NOT do that. This brings us to the concept of ✨ culture fit ✨


If you're looking for a chaser to the OpenAI boardroom drama, the video for my #monktoberfest 2023 talk "Intelligence is not Enough" is now up: youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuE…