Weblog Ryan Chen-Wing

Working with talented people

There are two types of reward for work. One is a reward attached to the work like remuneration; the other is a reward intrinsic to the work.

Working with talented people on a worthwhile endeavour can by its very nature be very rewarding.

I was reminded of this by Franklin when he was recounting what his current boss at Pear tree told him.

Franklin said that when he was describing some of the talented people he knew, his boss urged him to start an initiative with them (us as Franklin said he had also described me). This idea of working with talented people on a new opportunity is very exciting to me. When Franklin told me this story I pulled out a piece of scrap paper and wrote a note to myself.

This is something that seems evident but it is worthy of consideration. A group of talented people without an organizing force is an answer looking for a question.

I have known and met many talented people and worked with them on various projects of various success, importance, and terms. These experiences are some of the richest times because our collaboration allowed us to achieve greater things and in some cases success depended on it.

Important advice I would give to people in general but specifically to UW students would be to collect your resources, meet people, and prepare to pool the talents of your associates for fulfilling oppotunities that will fulfil a profit motive or the betterment of civilization.

Being able to make money, help humanity progress, or in any other way achieve self-actualisation, is worthwhile and worth seeking.