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"someone who is technically very curious."

By far the most useful quality in a CTO, but I'm a CTO and have said that exact thing so I'm biased.

I have met hundreds of CTOs in my career so far. It is surprising how quickly I can tell if the person is curious or not, and how often that one attribute ends up being a marker of someone who is extraordinary.

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Funny enough it was you I was attempting to paraphrase :)

Ha! It is a funny thing.. one time I was trying to remember something specific about a calibration table in a Subaru ECU and I googled it and found a great answer.. and sure enough it was something I posted years before. Ah the beauty of forgetting!

Haha, I've actually had the exact opposite problem: I was looking for a specific answer I knew I had only to find an obviously wrong answer on Stack, think to myself "who is this moron with his bag of lies", only to find it was me. Ah the pain of remembering!

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