The Struggle is when you are having a conversation with someone and you can’t hear a word that they are saying because all you can hear is the Strugg… - Ben Horowitz

The Struggle is when you go on vacation to feel better and you feel worse.

being too busy to train is the moral equivalent of being too hungry to eat.

Either people challenge each other to the point where they don’t like each other or they become complacent about each other’s feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship.

Senior people pose several important challenges: They come with their own culture. They will bring the habits, the communication style, and values from the company they grew up in. It’s very unlikely these will match your environment exactly. They will know how to work the system. Because senior people come from larger environments, they usually develop the skills to navigate and be effective in those environments. These skills may seem political and unusual in your environment. You don’t know the job as well as they do. In fact, you are hiring them precisely because you don’t know how to do the job. So how do you hold them accountable for doing a good job?