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by imsofuture 2540 days ago
As an insatiable reader: yikes!

There has got to be such a poor correlation between reading and being a good hire, I'm shocked you'd admit to seriously using such an awful filter for hiring. Hiring people that are most like you in appearance, philosophy, mannerisms, hobbies is a TERRIBLE way to hire.

2 comments

I bet they should also be the same color.
I find there to be decent overlap between readers and intellectually curious people. It's hard to be intellectually curious if you don't read.
Many if not owerwhelming majority of people who read do read same story or kind of book over and over. It is called preference.