> you do need some leadership positions where there's no time to train up

One thing I have noticed is that while leadership position searches should be focused on things like high level reasoning, ability to motivate and coordinate a team, and 360 degree communications, all of which take years or decades to cultivate, the search strategy looks for specific knowledge of specific frameworks, which usually takes weeks or at most months to acquire. I didn't see anything specific about your company or your search strategy, but for those searching and not finding, perhaps the fault lays in the search strategy?

Google seems to be coming to this realization. From the article: "We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship".

And at the bottom of the engine - that's a person. The scale of this achievement is awesome.
- Someone who still remembers the Apollo-11 launch.

An interesting project. I assembled an explanation of how this type of graph works a while back – well before it became a media sensation – that is intended for the basis of a lesson plan for high school students. The idea was to foster interesting cross discipline instruction. This one touches on mathematics, physics, computer simulations, computer visualization, and raises awareness that sometimes unexpected information can be extracted for our footprint in social media and other communications. The algorithm executes dynamically in the web browser, and you can watch the system evolve into a stable configuration. It's amazing what you can do with a modern web browser :)

WebGL has a lot of promise for the educational space. There are a lot of physical phenomenon that are intrinsically 3D, but we continually present them, even in digital for, as 2D illustrations. The electric field of a charge, or better yet of a dipole, is difficult to understand in it's 3D form from a 2D image. Other topics would also benefit from well designed interactive 3D renderings, for example structural engineering, architecture, and history. Think about being able to look at the Parthenon as originally built and painted and being able to take a tour around the outside and inside of the building. Tools like Three.js will make it easier to use, and now a lot can be done with just a little code, or Blender can be used to build more complex models. I don't espouse 3D for the sake of 3D - unless of course you are producing art. But there are a lot of cases, especially in education and information graphics, where it is a strong advantage.