Impact = Environment x Skills: How to Make Career Decisions
- The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.- The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll... See more
Marc Andreessen • Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity

Choosing where to work is one of the most important decisions you can make in your career.
In my experience, most people don't have the toolkit to think through this with the rigor or intent that matches the gravity of the decision.
In the first screenshot essay of my new series The Compass... See more