Making the unpredictable, predictable
- 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
After analysing the careers of successful people, Newport found that few had a grand plan to get where they ultimately ended up. Instead, they worked hard to get themselves into a position where they were exposed to possibilities, and let serendipity do its thing.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
“If you think extraordinary talent and a maniacal pursuit of excellence are necessary for success, I say that’s just one approach, and probably the hardest. When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.” Adams calls this strategy the ‘talent stack’. The idea is that you combine two or more skills you’re pretty good at, until no-one else ha
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