Feb
17
2011
Abraham Maslow agrees with John Resig
I was reading The Maslow Business Reader on the train this morning, just an hour after retweeting in agreement with John Resig’s preference for Github commits over resumes.
What I read on pages 11 and 12 from Maslow was remarkably similar.
I have spoken about dilettantes, for instance (as contrasted with workers and doers), and indicated my contempt for them. I have mentioned how often I have tested people with these fancy aspirations simply by giving them a rather dull but important and worthwhile job to do. Nineteen out of twenty fail the test. … The test for any person is — that is you want to find out whether he’s an apple tree or not — Does He Bear Apples? Does He Bear Fruit? That’s the way you tell the difference between fruitfulness and sterility, between talkers and doers, between the people who change the world and the people who are helpless in it.
