Early Career Advice

Career advice for young people and/or people early on in their career

The Data Team Playbook: 50+ Resources For High-Performing Data Teams

SeattleDataGuy seattledataguy.substack.com

a great collection of resources

Make decisions easy for busy people. You will rise fast in your career if busy people like working with you. Here’s a tip: when you have a problem to solve, come prepared with a suggested next step. If you have a question, phrase it in a way they can answer yes/no. If there are multiple options, lay them out and ask them to pick one. Try to avoid

David Perell • 28 Pieces of Life Advice

alex

Work on What Matters.

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Jilber Najem

How to Be Lucky¶

You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short... See more

Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself

AAlara

provocative

The purpose of a job is not like your eye color or height. You have the ability to craft what a job means to you. And as the research shows, that “crafting” plays a key role in your satisfaction.

Simone Stolzoff • How to Find Clarity When You’re at a Career Crossroads

Stuart Evans

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.

Brian Timar • Mimetic

Stuart Evans

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

The Man Who Does Everything - Adam Grant on The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes

sari

Infopunk #6 – What real learning looks like

Juan Orbea juanorbea.substack.com

JJuan Orbea

Cool 2 minute movie about real learning. Skaters involved.

When I was at Google, my very first promotion from Eng 1 to Eng 2 got rejected after 2 years in the role. The feedback from the promo committee was “work on more impactful projects”. I was disappointed, but I also learned that “I’ll just do what I’m told and I’ll get promoted” is simply not true. I needed to rethink my approach.

The feedback from... See more

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AAmit Cohen

Impact is so much more important than doing your job right. Based on a LinkedIn post by Irina Stanescu