Nick Denton’s ‘State of Gawker 2012′ Memo: ‘Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.’ (thepoliticker.observer)
Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton occasionally sends out missives for his
company that usually contain a little bit of insight into the way his company
is trending, which media watchers tend to obsess over like it’s The Bible
Code, looking for prophecies about the future of their industry from the blog
network’s fearless leader.
This one, released two hours ago, is already no different.
_The Observer_ was just forwarded the memo, in full. It reads (favorite-parts-
emphasis ours):
> From: Scott Kidder
Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Subject: 2012
To: edit@gawker.com
>
> I’m sending this out on behalf of Nick, who is currently favela paintballing
in Brazil:
>
> ***
>
> “For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so.
The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your
average one. What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than
the average engineer. He could have meetings in his head. The Mac team was an
attempt to build a whole team like that, A players. People said they wouldn’t
get along, they’d hate working with each other. But I realized that A players
like …
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