Asked by Auren Hoffman which piece of conventional wisdom he thinks is bad advice, OnePay CEO Omer Ismail picks experience. He adds that work-life balance is also overrated, since work is part of life.
…with both Claude and GPT in terms of, you know, when I'm dealing with a very tricky situation, particularly now that they have a lot of context on me and how I think. So that's been really helpful. A difficult conversation that I need to have with, you know, an employee or, you know, a partner.
This has been amazing. Okay. Last question we asked all of our guests. What conventional wisdom or advice? Do you think is generally bad advice?
Experience is overrated. I will always choose hunger and grit over experience. I think people weigh over-index on experience, particularly in the age of AI. I would actually argue that experience is a negative as opposed to a positive. And then the other piece of advice that I find overrated is, you know, talking about work-life balance. I think work-life balance makes it sound like these are two diametrically opposite things that we need to somehow find equilibrium on. I think work is part of life and life is part of work. And I try to like, you know, just have a much more symbiotic relationship between both of these. On
the first one, okay. So, like, obviously, if you're interviewing someone, it's very easy to determine their experience. You know, maybe you have to like dive in a bit or something. Or really, did you what did you really do when you worked at an engineer at Google or whatever? But it's like, it's…
Aaron, I think it actually comes across pretty quickly. And by the way, there are false positives, so don't get me wrong, right? Uh, we'll make hiring mistakes, and and uh, um, and and by the way, the mistakes are on both sides, right? The employee also may not be, this might not be the best fit…
this guy. Like, this guy is a total stud, right? Like, I'm not sure. Wow. So, experience overrated. Yeah. Okay. I agree. Okay. If someone does that, like, absolutely. Like, I'm hiring you too. Like, that's, that's great. All right. This has been incredible. Thank you, Omer, for joining us on…