Why unruly slackers make the best employees

Published: Sun, 12/04/16

My newest pal Troy Broussard (who lives in the same small drinking town with a big fishing problem I live in) helps Yours Unruly make the case for the American slacker:


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You're "Slacker" email was awesome today Ben Settle.

This is something I've always talked about but few have understood. The best programmers are always "slackers". I'm a "recovering programmer" (meaning I did it for 15+ years but don't write code anymore, but also never have truly gotten over it)...

The best programmers were outright lazy... they didn't want to write or maintain 10,000 lines of code, so they would come up with ways of doing things 10x faster in order to avoid "all the work". In the end, they'd come up with much more elegant solutions.

I hired more than 110 programmers over the years and I can tell you that the most traditionally "competent" programmers made the worst employees, but the slackers were by far the most productive. They were also the most quirky and, over the years, I began to look for that "indicator" in the interview process.

Quirky slackers... Your ideal employee! :-)

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Fact:

A year or two from now, all the silly little goo-roos online will be pushing slackership, daily emails, 10 minute long workdays, etc because they only know how to follow trends.

But you and I know who really lit this bonfire.

Ooh, we know…

More:

If you want to learn how to have this kind of lifestyle from the source (** coughs **), you have until the stroke of midnight tonight EST to get my new 10-Minute Workday program at a big ol’ fatty discount.

A courtesty warning:

I’ll be sending many more emails today promoting it.

Ooh yeah, baby -- I’m just getting *started*…

Here’s the link:

http://www.EmailPlayers.com/awai

Ben Settle

P.S. What’s that?

You think this all sounds great, but you want to know other people can do this and it doesn’t just work for me? Then maybe this will drive a stake through the heart of your doubts:

Last Summer, “Email Players” subscriber Jeff Terry was mocking the hustle-pushers on Facebook by randomly posting:

“Bored…”

Then:

“Oh hey another 9 new members to my program today. Dem wicked ways”

Then:

“Ben Settle you've helped me simplify my business so much over the past 6 months, 1-2 emails a day and that's pretty much it. I find myself wondering what to do with my life most hours of the day now #1stworldproblems?

There you is.

And here you go:

http://www.EmailPlayers.com/awai