Harrison Wright

@0xwillthetrill So you won't put any effort into backing up your claim I'm a liar even when I point you to verifiable stats, but you expect me to sit here and justify myself to you. Nah, I'm good

@harrison_BCR you were so inclined to include data and specific numbers in your LinkedIn post, why do you just tell me here? curious what companies, how many offers in 3.5 years etc

I’ll take things that never happened for $500

Reading Dragonfly's new compensation report. One stat in particular grabbed me. Usage of agency recruiters correlates with low offer acceptance rates (just 50% for companies that exclusively hire with agencies). Strange. Our offer acceptance rate is close to 100%. We go entire years without getting a turndown. So what could be causing this? Two main possibilities: - Companies that use agencies more have less to offer, so the turndown rate is not a result of agency use but their unattractiveness as an employer - Most recruitment firms in crypto (and especially the more prolific ones who probably drive 80/20 of the total agency recruiting activity) are "candidate-led". Which sounds all nice and warm and fuzzy but what it really means is that their operating principle is to get their candidates placed, not to fill their clients' jobs. So you'll have much more competition for these agency-sourced candidates who are also being shopped around to a half dozen other teams. This is, unfortunately, the model of agency engagement most crypto founders prefer. Want to beat the odds? Hire two kinds of recruiters only. 1) The ones who can embed like an in-house team and understand how to really RECRUIT, not just trade candidates 2) The expensive niche specialists who can pull off the impossible and generally charge those retainers you don't want to pay but should anyway Keep feeding the agency race to the bottom and the bottom is exactly what you will get.

@mirza Real

I really want to take a break and play Silksong today. Waited 5 years for this day and Hollow Knight is maybe my favorite game of all time. But alas, need to grind and Make Injective Great Again. #MIGA Season

It's not about finding candidates. There are endless candidates to be found instantly at your fingertips from the very website you're browsing right now. Before social media we used to gather names manually by dialing into switchboards and making endless referral calls. It was skilled and laborious work. And we usually knew nothing besides a job title and a company about the candidates we called. Today "finding candidates" is entirely a solved problem. You can do it yourself or get someone off Fiverr to do it for $10. So what is it then? Why is hiring harder than ever? You're optimizing for the wrong thing.

"Recruiters are useless and have no idea what they're doing, not like those other professional services like lawyers, accountants and consultants!" - guy who refuses to professionally engage recruiters the same way he engages lawyers, accountants and consultants brb hiring 3 no-win no-fee tax filings, will pay the one who gets there first NGMI

@AlmostMedia I was seriously ill with about 50 different symptoms for 3 months after a single pill of levaquin. Still some lingering effects years later. Endless horror stories out there. Never touch flouroquinolones unless a matter of life and death ☠️

Motherfucker I messed up a ligament doing tai chi. Turns out the antibiotic cephalexin is associated with a 31% increased risk of combined tendon rupture but the study is so recent that no one told me FML

@ttarsi_ Getting sorely tempted to just hit block every time I see one of these now

Lord give me the courage to boldly dish out terrible advice like a Linkedin "Influencer" who can't keep a job for more than six months

"I work at the intersection of..."

My morning routine (steal this) 👇 👇 👇 07:00 Wake up 07:00-08:00 Get ready for work 08:00-09:00 Do work 09:00-10:00 Do work 10:00-11:00 Do work 11:00-12:00 Do work You're welcome

Most recruiting problems stem from not doing enough on the front end. >> Gone through a 2 month process, churned through a bunch of interviews and ended up back at the drawing board? You didn't contact enough of the right people initiailly. >> Trawling through applications. "Hmm, mayyyyyyybe we should interview this guy with seven jobs in three years, his experience looks kind of OK." Would you still be wasting your time on those applications if you'd built a big enough funnel from the start? >> Noone good is interested in the role. What have you done to deserve their interest? Did you put any effort at all into your "product", offer and positioning or did you just spam your job description across the airwaves? If you do the work properly on the front end, the back end becomes easy. Know the last time we had an offer turned down? Three and a half years ago! That's obviously because of our superhuman closing skills, ability to sell ice to Eskimos and so on. Or. We just don't put people into the process who are going to turn down the offer in the first place. Frontload the suck, you'll be glad you did.

@thebc12 Also an excellent list

What I optimize: - Quality over quantity - Process that balances saving the company time ($) - being ok saying no if someone isn’t a strong yes

What agency recruiters are taught to optimize for: - Number of resumes sent out - Number of new clients won What I optimize for: - One candidate, one submission, one hire - Never lose a client Built different

@tunguz The affluent parts of Mexico come close

I want European walkable dual-use neighborhoods AND American professional dynamism and ACs. And I believe this is possible to achieve, now more than ever.

You can't reach escape velocity without full throttle. 100% effort for a sustained period of time = victory. 95% effort = you never get off the runway to begin with. I don't accept contingent work because it makes 100% effort unviable. If you think every recruiter sucks it's probably because you insist on engaging them under lose-lose conditions.

You use AI to write slop I use AI to feed me context so I can write my own slop We are not the same

@jimchang Going outbound fixes this

hiring in crypto honestly SUCKS every role has like 1000 applications, but most applicants often have little to no experience in crypto i can't teach really teach someone defi or interoperability in a 2-week onboarding when they've never used a wallet. everyone wants to "get into crypto" but nobody wants to learn it first?

@thedegenpsyche €7.99 (Mexico)

How much is 500 grams of Lurpak in your country? I'll start.....€9.48 (Greece)

@CurareCrypto After a certain point, leverage beats grind hands down

@harrison_BCR Totally agree here! Hustle culture is attractive, but it isn't for everyone and is definitely not healthy in later stages of life.

Is crypto obsessed with hustle culture because it's such a young industry? When you're 22, you need to work night and day because you don't know anything - and you have all the time and energy in the world to make it happen. If you're 42 and still working 70 hours a week, you've gone horribly wrong somewhere along the way. It's certainly nothing to brag about. A bit like being a 42 year old nightclub guy. You never want to be the 42 year old club guy.