I've read a few of this guy's articles and all the ones I've read have a good element of story telling to them as well as things to consider.
I think the follow up article to this was more useful to consider, but this one is very entertaining ( in a gossippy sort of way ).
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde