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The author goes out of his way (and I think it was a good call), not to call out "army things" that make for good co-founders, but to frame it as "these are qualities of good choices that were made obvious to me in an army context". Specifically:

* Trustworthy

* Professional

* Competency

What other (non-business) contexts could we frame this type of article as? I suspect team-sports will stick out as an example, but where else?

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For all of the flack that artists get, the "workaday" side of the arts (think orchestra members, studio musicians, professional theater casts and crews, film and cartoon studios) emphasize this like crazy. Talent can get you through an audition, but showing up reliably and on time, being comprehensively prepared, and performing at a consistently high level will keep you employed.

Team-sports actually was an example I used in an initial draft re: professionalism (the idea that you leave everything on the field when the game ends) but I ultimately dropped it because I was stacking one analogy on top of another.

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