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Advice
Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.
The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng
Timeless advice:
You need to be good, not good for your age
Be wary of personal mission creep, both IRL and online
Prioritize finding friends and collaborators you'd like to have in your life for a long time
Avoid chasing the red herrings of success
Interesting life paths are generally non-repeatable
Keep your standards everything—but especially for your own conduct—high
Own your mistakes
Forgive your parents, and get to know them. Especially if you are the child of immigrants
Embrace commitment in work and personal matters
Mutual obligations are a gift—cherish them and run towards them
Take your work seriously, but yourself less so
Yep, this goes for just about everyone. The CEO of that hot shot new company that everyone loves? He’s probably never run a company before. That director who just started managing other managers? She’s probably only managed individual contributors before. We are all constantly being asked to step up to new challenges and help lead. This is just as... See more
Makinde Adeagbo • Nobody Knows What They’re Doing
There has never been a better time in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside, than now. Right now, this minute. This is the time that folks in the future will look back at and say, “Oh to... See more
You Are Not Late
feels even more true today
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Albert Einstein said, "It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer."
It's a good reminder that the most successful people in any field play the long game.
FStwitter.comObsession / stick-to-it-iveness / persistence / relentlessness
God, grant me the clarity to recognize when I need Advice,
The humility to seek Information when I lack understanding,
The courage to ask others to help me Do what I cannot alone,
The frankness to connect in hard times and good,
And the confidence to invite advocates to speak on my behalf.
May each request for aid be an offering of trust,
And each
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Patrick McKenziekalzumeus.com
Remembering that the tech industry is being built by people just figuring things out on the fly isn’t just a way to avoid stress; it’s become one of the most empowering bits of advice I can imagine. Because if all those people out there have changed the world while not knowing what they were doing…so can I.