Strong organizational cultures are ones where members can describe them in detail, expound on their merits for extended time, and specifically articulate what they disagree with about the culture, indicating genuinely distinctive values.
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Patrick CollisonEvidence Quote
“i admire cultures that are strong first off cultures that when you ask somebody who's in the culture can you describe it and that they will that they can expound on its merits for more than half an hour and in almost every case describe at some length all the things they don't like about it right um because if it's strong they're i mean it's improbable that every aspect of it is something the person you know really agrees with or feels an affinity for”
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Patrick Collison: Philosophies for Running Stripe, Hiring, Decision Making, and Reading— The Knowledge Project PodcastCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:17:01 PM
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