3-2-1: Two ways to grow, how to criticize, and a simple recipe for finding good opportunities

“A simple recipe for finding opportunities:

1. Be pleasant


2. Ask questions


3. Engage daily

It’s hard for a warm and pleasant person who is asking a lot of questions and engaging in their industry daily to not come across interesting opportunities.”

Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n

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