For years, hiring for cultural fit has been a cornerstone of my recruitment strategy. The idea is simple: more than focusing only on skills, I focused on finding people who aligned with our company's values, norms, and practices to create a harmonious and productive work environment. This also means that I put a lot of focus on building a strong culture inside my team. Cultural fit However, when listening to Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant on the Work Life podcast, I had to re-think this approach as it highlighted the potential downsides of overemphasizing cultural fit. In the podcast Adam says that startups where founders put culture fit first, their organizations are dramatically less likely to fail. So culture fit clearly wins in terms of startups surviving and then going public. But studies have shown that after their IPO, these ‘culture fit’ firms grow at slower rates. He thinks that what is happening is that early on when you have a really clear mission, it's very ...
I talked about Ollama before as a way to run a Large-Language-Model(LLM) locally. This opens the door to try out multiple modals at a low(er) cost (although also a lower performance) and could be interesting if you are not allowed to share any data with an AI provider. For example you are a developer but your employer doesn’t allow you to use AI tools for that reason. If this is a use case that is relevant for you, than I have some good news for you. With the latest version of JetBrains AI Assistent(available in JetBrains Rider but also other IDE’s) you can now use Let me show you how to use this: Open JetBrains Rider(or any other IDE that integrates the JetBrains AI Assistent) Hit Ctrl-Alt-S or go to the Settings through the Settings icon at the top right Go to the AI Assistant section under Tools Check the Enable Ollama checkbox. A warning message appears about Data Sharing with Third-Party AI Service Providers. Click OK to con...