I really hope you and 6cxs2hd6 are being tongue in cheek. First, this kid clearly has a good head on his shoulders, and is even able to do some pretty cool technical stuff that most of the population cannot. Second, judging someone based on a single action you've seen from them is... less than scientific. By that logic you should be a "short comment writer" :).

Note that the conversational tangent my comment was in response to was "if it wasn't actually his idea". In that case, the thing it best shows is that he did a good job presenting it. Which is itself a valuable skill, is my point. Obviously there's a question of how well the little we know about him generalizes, regardless of what skills we're considering.

I guess I should also note, I hadn't meant "salesman" to be derogatory...

Re "manager", yes I was being mostly tongue in cheek; I recently re-read The Gervais Principle and was thinking of Sociopaths. :)

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/