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Climbing the Wrong Hill | Cdixon Blog
What a mistake it is to title-chase when choosing a startup 🤦🏻♀️.
SVP at a company goes nowhere is SVP of nothing. Early teammate at a company that becomes a $10B+ platform biz, grows into a staff engineer, an SVP of product, an extraordinary leader.
Choose company, not title.
sarah guo convictiontwitter.comStart by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.9
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Explore-Exploit Trade-off (David Epstein): A fundamental concept in decision-making that arises in many domains. It is the balancing act between two opposing strategies. Exploitation involves choosing the best option based on current knowledge of the system (which may be incomplete or misleading), while exploration involves trying out new options t
... See moreIf you have found an outlet in your career that provides both the requisite hygiene factors and motivators, then a deliberate approach makes sense. Your aspirations should be clear, and you know from your present experience that they are worth striving for. Rather than worrying about adjusting to unexpected opportunities, your frame of mind should
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