What's going on here, with this human?

Hedge-fund seeder Graham Duncan's long, much-shared essay on assessing people for hiring, partnership, or even life partnership. Opens with Kwame Appiah ("the challenge is not how to play the game; the challenge is figuring out what game you're playing") and the recognition that for 25 years his game has been strategy applied to people. Draws on thousands of interviews and reference calls, the Jobs–Ive "10/10" benchmark of mutual understanding, and shares his own go-to interview questions, his assessment of personality tests, and the action steps he uses to move from a 3 to something closer to a 7 in the first meeting.