DEAL ONLY WITH COLLEAGUES I LIKE. There’s that test: only hire someone you wouldn’t mind sitting next to on a plane ride across the country. Better, then, to be the one hiring than the one trying to be hired. When you are trying to get hired, you put on the mask that says, “I’m the guy who you will like to sit next to flying across country.” I don’t like putting on masks. Nor do I like the people around me to put on masks. It’s very hard to see through all the costumes. People don’t even know they are wearing them; they go through so much of their lives pretending to be someone else, someone
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