Culture Fit Kills Innovation: Hire for Growth, Not Comfort
Stop hiring clones. Build resilient teams with curiosity, adaptability, and bold ideas. Not culture fit.
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
I jumped into a problem I knew nothing about. 20% ready. 80% terrified.
Solved it in 4 hours flat.
No context.
No expertise.
Just a provided slide deck with pain points.
Here's how I turned chaos into clarity:
→ Scanned the deck fast
→ Leveraged only transferable skills from my career
→ Conceptualized the unknown to what I already knew
→ Learned a brand-new space from zero
Once I got a grasp of the problem, I moved quick:
→ Highlighted key parts of the PDF on my iPad
→ Took messy notes with questions straight on the deck
→ Built a draft plan in Apple Notes
That plan gave me:
1️⃣ Core problem + pain points
2️⃣ ROI opportunities from solving it
3️⃣ Tech-enabled solution ideas
4️⃣ Technical feasibility
5️⃣ Rabbit holes + risks
6️⃣ Resources required
7️⃣ Infrastructure dependencies
Then I went deeper.
Used Perplexity for research.
Built an implementation plan.
Estimated timeline with risk buffer.
All in 4 hours.
If I had more time?
✅ Cursor agents would already be building with my prompts
✅ Figma Make would be prototyping design
✅ I would be coding in parallel with my pre-built stack
I haven't felt that pure problem-solving flow in a long time.
Taking chaos → turning it into value.
Using nothing but transferable skills + AI.
Solving real pain points in record time.
This is what excites me most today.
Problems big enough to scare me.
Systems strong enough to solve them.
Stop hiring clones. Build resilient teams with curiosity, adaptability, and bold ideas. Not culture fit.
Nicolas Cava
Fractional CTO
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