Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53

For me strategy was about insatiable curiosity, falling down rabbit holes, connecting seemingly disparate dots, being that annoying kid in the backseat of the car on a long road trip who keeps asking ‘but, why?’, diving deep on subjects I’d never explored before, becoming a master of pointless trivia and therefore excellent in a pub quiz scenario.

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adopted this attitude and embraced a version of a career which philosopher Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”⁠9 From this perspective, my career was not a series of jobs, but a high‑stakes proposition, one where falling beh

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So there's basically two pieces of advice I would give. One is collect stepping stones and honor interestingness... The second piece of advice is the more visionary angle, which is to recognize stepping stones when they snap into view for the first time.