I think one can, as uncredentialed young person with substantially no asset other than a gleam in your eye, say “I intend to start a bank” or “I intend to make a dent on international shipping” and almost immediately talk to people who work on those and will take you seriously.
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If a kid is already ambitious, is it a good thing to amplify that ambition even more? What I regret on my past is that I focused too much on business and too little on hobbies and other activities.
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I think I would probably have been described as ambitious by standards of my peer set growing up and it is very non-obvious to me that being 100X more ambitious 15 years ago would have required compromising on any of my values. (Channeling the ambition also very useful.)
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You neither meet such people nor have an amplifying environment on a day to day basis unless you work at a VC firm. What can people working as regular software engineers do to find such ambitious people and environments?
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They use the same Twitter, HN, tech meetups etc that everyone else does; make friends there and then break bread like friends do.
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Was talking with a friend and fellow MIT alum this afternoon and had the ~ same reaction. Sure, it’s still (at 10+years remove) the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but if I hadn’t done it I’d be working for the local paint company so
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There’s a certain flavor of optimism there I haven’t seen anywhere else. Plenty of downsides, but so good to experience that mindset, esp early in a career.
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What's the problem with SF meetup?
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