Joel Spolsky on hiring great people

Interesting advice here (and promises more during the rest of the week):

Instead of thinking as recruiting as a “gather resumes, filter resumes” procedure, you’re going to have to think of it as a “track down the winners and make them talk to you” procedure.

I have three basic methods for how to go about this:

1. Go to the mountain
2. Internships
3. Build your own community^*