[georgesequeira]

In my experience, I agree with the fact that top school people don't correlate with the best hires but my data shows that high clarity + high energy does not correlate with top schools! In fact, I have many high-clarity // low-energy folks as examples.

I think that not being crisp at communication does not mean you wont be clear. English was not my first language so I empathize! More recently, I've worked with south american developers who are not 100% fluent but are very clear in what they mean (ie. consistent and form solid ideas/thoughts/visions). And early in my career at Alexa, many researchers (lots of top-rate folks) were international and didn't have 100% fluency in english but were 100% clear about what they were building, their methods, and how we were going to test their hypotheses.

Unfortunately, the default meaning of clear is: speaks english well. But I am speaking about clarity in thinking and being able to represent that consistently in words.