Daniel Gross: evaluation

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…Shakespeare himself does this in Hamlet, when Hamlet puts on the play before the king to see how the king will react. It’s doubly Shakespearean in that sense. But just get people talking about drama. I feel you learn a lot. It’s not something they can prepare for. They can’t really fake it. If they don’t understand the topic, well, you can switch to something else. But if you can’t find anything they can understand, you figure, well, maybe they don’t have that much depth or understanding of other people’s characters. One good thing you highlight in the book is this idea, in general, of talking to people about media, drama, movies, music. I think that works because you can learn a lot from what someone says — they’re not likely to make up a story — but it’s also fun, and it is a common thing many people share, even in this era of HBO and Netflix. Any given week in America — and globally, I actually find at this point — there are 10 shows that people are watching, so it does provide a fun common ground that I think is underused. People come into the interview with all these scripted questions, like what are your greatest weaknesses? But the idea that it might be better to ask someone about Squid Games, I think, is really underrated. What are résumés still good for these days? A very LinkedIn question, right?…

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