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We read @nayafia article on talent distributions and organizations adaptations to them on @yak governance chat today and I have Some Thoughts. https://nadia.xyz/top-talent

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The basic idea that there are three types of orgs that adapt to the three types of talent distributions (normal, Pareto, bimodal) seems empirically correct to me, though you can argue about nature vs nurture and how learnable the underlying outlier type is. But there’s a couple of subtleties.

First, while the basic typology of linchpin, A-player, and average player is fine, I think the “10xer” literally applies to the A-player  type. High percentile person on a Pareto. The linchpin type is incommensurable with others. Sui generis.

oh wait is 10x just another way of saying what I’ve been calling an “operator”