Soft Skills

Hot take: a lot of "soft skills" in business are necessary only as side-effects of crummy Organization Design: structure, process, culture. Incoherent/lacking Autonomy, Mastery, And Purpose. Are you really rationalizing/rewarding a political (student council) process/culture? See also High Agency. cf Glue People

Nassim Taleb's Surgeon Paradox: "If you’re choosing between two surgeons of equal merit, choose the one who DOESN’T look the part, because they had to overcome more to get to where they are."

• George Mack variation: If presented with two equal candidates for a role, pick the one with the least amount of charisma.