Staying Put

Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance, b... See more

Chris Dixon: "The mistake I see a lot of young people making early in their career. The next prize, promotion, bonus, is six months away. And they're on that treadmill, never willing to join a startup and take what appears to be a step backward, but is, in reality, a bigger hill."