EP 190: A Philosophical Approach to Hiring and Team Design

Yeah, I mean, definitely for me, just like a little bit about my stories.

I was even a college dropout.

I felt a lot of pressure to go down the business path.

Ironically, as an entrepreneur, I found it quite boring.

I really was interested in philosophy, but pretty young, I suppose I just figured, okay, well, you know, people say business is what matters.

And I wasn't really interested in that.

So I was like, you know what, I really just want to start business.

my own company and really do it.

And so I just dropped out and went on the path of entrepreneurship pretty quickly.

Philosophy is very important to me.

So what I ended up doing later in life is, have you ever seen the great courses on Amazon? No, I haven't.

OK, well, so the great courses, it's like a three dollar a month subscription because I guess like people don't value this stuff as much.

But, you know, we do.

Right.

There's a lot of people like us.

But you know what I mean? There's there's courses, the big questions of philosophy.

And Kyle Johnson is a professor from King's College, Jesuit University, King's College University.

is the professor that does this like series.

So a lot of these shows, they're all like courses essentially.

And they're broken up into like 30 minute segments across like 20, 40 episodes.

So there's this entire course on philosophy.

There's a couple, there's one on, I think, metaphysics, the big questions of philosophy.

There's another one that I watched that I love that Kyle Johnson did called, uh, it was like sci-fi movies and philosophy.

So yeah, The assignment of every episode was to watch a movie.

And then in the next episode, he would discuss the philosophical concepts behind the movie.