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- therefore once you decide a candidate is great you cannot hesitate or delay. You must drop everything and rearrange heaven and earth to get them - there are small things (sending flowers), medium things (comp), and big things (their identity and dreams) - you want the barbell strategy-- put all your energy into small things and big things. Leave medium things till the end Small things: - ppl massively underestimate the power of small gestures. TL;DR: love-bomb the candidate - spend more time than money. Expense accounts are abundant but time is scarce. It's an expensive signal no one can fake - stay in close contact over text and phone - send them a first edition used book or an analog oscilloscope or some other random thing they mentioned in passing they like. Make these unique, everyone sends wine - invite them to computer history museum or moma or something. Spend time with them! Treat these meetings as dates, make them unique. Everyone buys dinner - be persistent but not annoying