In many cases the people evaluating candidates and the person who will end up managing the new employee are not “qualified” for the job, or even their own job, under the way people usually model “qualification.”https://twitter.com/shl/status/1190368602639044608 …
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I think of raising investment as a sales exercise in which you say “I have amassed sufficient proof points to materially risk your decision here but if it were not a risky one it would be irrational for me to talk to you”, perhaps less explicitly, and I think jobs are similar.
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Since that might be a little opaque: there is some percentage of Series A investments that fail and some much smaller percentage which become Google someday. If you are Google, *today*, it is irrational to speak to a Series A specializing firm for your capital needs.
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Similarly, if you and Hogwarts are mutually convinced you’d absolutely crush it at Associate Potions Master with 100% confidence, you almost definitionally should be interviewing for a better job than that.
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If I just get a few more XP, I'll level up and then they *have* to give me the job.
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Bingo ... untangle belief
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I'm not sure that even that's true. I've recently been wondering if the only thing that matters is *perceived* performance subsequent to convincing people to give you the shot. (Albeit, it's easier to sustain that perception if it's accurate.)
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It’s profound to understand that no one will or even can give you power (at work, society, etc.). You have to take it.
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Good quote in the Motherless Brooklyn trailer about power.
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