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July 1, 2014

What do I look for when #hiring? A curious tangential thinker with a great memory and completionist tendencies is a good place to start.

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  1. Peter Chester
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    When I look up “tangential thinker” I get a bunch of thought disorder results. What do you mean by that?

  2. Alex King
    View July 2, 2014

    I mean someone who can connect related things easily. For example, someone who can pull out an appropriate movie quote on the spot.

    If you have a great memory and can connect things, you can more easily draw parallels, see where things intersect, etc.

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