Early Career Advice

Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster? March 30, 2012

Maintain a diversity of pursuits — you want to ensure that, no matter how engrossed you become in one, you never forget that the others exist.

Advice for those in their 20s: “ten years from now, you need to be able to say that this is the life you chose, not one you settled for.” A future that is created intentionally is more pleasant than one that is scrapped together by avoidance-driven choices.

I like to think of careers as less like ladders and more like lily pads. In retrospect, some hops might look as if they were on a path, while others might look like a digression. Some might prioritize work, others might prioritize life outside of work. But whatever you hop to next, know you’ll have the chance to hop again. Little in life is

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