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#07 - Erik Torenberg thinks we should build career moats
- Without personal moats, we may find ourselves in a perpetually evolving, seemingly more meritocratic game.
from Agency in the Age of AI by Anu
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Connect this to Erik Torenberg “How to Build Moats”
- Every great product should have a moat, and careers are no different.
Product Tropes that Apply to Careers: Capitalize on unfair advantages, insights, or relationships. Disrupt orthogonally, often from below—try not to compete head on. When you’re younger, take more market risk; when you’re more experienced, take execution risk.from See your Career as a Product by Substack
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- Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choos... See more
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- do find your tribe of collaborators and go deep with a handful, involving them in the value building process — developing skills, building something together, etc.)
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