Ok, imagine the following: you are a (young and probably underpaid) summer intern; you suddenly get the task to drop whatever else you were doing (which was probably more interesting) and read through megabytes of mind-numbing documents; you have little to no personal "skin in the game"; and still, you somehow manage to muster the motivation to pay enough attention so you are able to spot the one interesting email among the thousands of irrelevant ones. Does it sound more remarkable now?

You might be surprised that sometimes people give a shit about the team, regardless of “skin in the game”.

Based on my repeated observations of excited interns going above and beyond like this, no, it’s not remarkable.

Hire interns and enjoy their youthful exuberance before they become jaded.