It’s important to have a strong learning signal — a fast feedback loop between effort expended and success. This way, you’ll know quickly what it takes to succeed, and whether you can be happy doing so. Look for environments where competitors see themselves as playing a game, rather than fighting for survival — this prevents rankings within the... See more
Advice I would give to a college freshman:
These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs
If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these:
• Run your own... See more
Cultivate what Adam terms a “challenge network,” a cohort of people you can rely on to give you unvarnished feedback
If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions