# Brilliant Jerks in Engineering

<http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

I know a lot of managers in the technology field who would repeat the conclusion in this article.

> Early on in my career, I supported brilliant jerks of any type and thought they were worth it. I was wrong. 

I did that too. Always have to think about the team impact.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT29: Weekly Thing for November 25, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/29/), Links 📌

## Same host

- [Working at Netflix](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/67df7ccdb1cd/) (brendangregg.com, January 22, 2015)

## Saved the same week

- [Against Productivity – The Message – Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e9873e1f136b/) (medium.com, November 23, 2017)
- [AlphaGo Zero – How and Why it Works – Tim Wheeler](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/60453879e25a/) (tim.hibal.org, November 23, 2017)
- [Kitchen Soap – On Being A Senior Engineer](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a847ef74e3a4/) (kitchensoap.com, November 24, 2017)
- [DOES17 San Francisco - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw - YouTube](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a7b4beadd038/) (youtube.com, November 24, 2017)
- [CEOs Don’t Steer](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d68cec1b0c8d/) (ribbonfarm.com, November 24, 2017)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.html