After a couple glasses of wine, and a wonderful conversation with my colleagues Kevin and Alex at TI, I feel compelled to write a five minute post on "Being Smart", before sitting down with my lovely wife, son, and daughter who turns 6 tonight. She's anxious to open her presents and hasn't seen mommy for 2 weeks. Mom has been outside the country, as she's been mourning the passing of her father. I anticipate writing a lot more on this subject as time goes on, but want to get a brief tidbit out.
You see, so much is made, on Being Smart, especially in circles surrounding technology. It's great to be smart, brilliant, quicker and faster than the "regular" bear. If we've come this far, we've all got some wires that are firing upstairs, some that are firing quicker than others. But, when you're working on a small team, surrounded by each other 12+ hours of the day, would you prefer to be around the brilliant prick, or the pretty smart, good guy, who you can hang with, have a beer, and talk with about his family, friends, trials and tribulations?
I'll take a few guys on a team, with whom I can speak my mind, with whom I can hang, work hard, and play and live fully and happily. Yeah, I'll take that every day 'til the end, over the other guy who is constantly assessing his own level of intelligence over those in the room around him.
No-brainer there.
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