"what do you do when you can't compete with people smarter and more ambitious than you?" IMO: each time you encounter someone working on X, subtract X from the range of things you’re focusing on. over time you develop a narrower focus, of things that nobody else is focusing on
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Replying to @visakanv
Play the Venn diagram game: competence is uncommon in any one domain, extremely rare in two, and all-but-unheard-of in three, for most interesting selections of domain.
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I sometimes kick myself that I spend all that work learning Japanese when it turns out that being the one engineer who doesn't hate the discipline of marketing gets you basically the same amount of market defensibility *literally the day you declare yourself that.*
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Would you mind clarifying “market defensibility” and how this relates to Japanese?
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Replying to @RealtimeAI @visakanv
My original career plan was "Shucks, engineering seems to be a really brutal field to be in. I know, I'll become bilingual in Japanese/English and then the combination of that plus engineering skill will mean I will always have a job, because billions in software flows JP<=>US."
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This plan was not a bad plan! Totally would have worked; I can point you to the extremely-difficult-to-fill jobs at AppAmaGooBookSoft that I'm qualified for as a result of it. But, surprisingly, just picking two pretty pedestrian skills at ~every software company works, too.
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