Dreamforce, The Google Phone and Valley Blindness
Nick Carr is moderating a visionaries panel at Dreamforce. W00t! And yes, George Lucas is gonna be there too 
PS: The Dreamforce site has talking heads and there’s no way to shut them up.
Let it not be said that I didn’t toss my worthless two cents into the Google Phone rumor mill. I learned from a certain CEO that reading recruitment ads can give you clues about what’s going on at other companies. This position, for example, may or may not have anything to do with a Google phone. But it’s fun to toss that out there.
Which brings me to what’s so wrong about this LinkedIn recruitment ad - the very last line “Local candidates only”. Like I’ve mentioned before, I detest the peculiar blindness people in the valley have towards the rest of the world. It could be anything from not getting why Nokia or Orkut is so popular to plain old reluctance to hire outside this little rat’s nest. I agree that it’s best to cast a local net first, or maybe even prefer a local candidate if equally qualified, but precluding non-locals? Tch tch. Contrast that with this interview with Jason Fried: “I don’t want my talent to be limited by geography.”
Watch the interview: 
PS: If LinkedIn is hiring a new evangelist, what’s happening with Mario Sundar?
