Turns out that Scott Adams (Dilbert) wrote about my favorite career advice, which is playing the Venn Diagram game.http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html …
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My formulation: if you're only good at X, you compete against everyone good at X. You'll lose. If X+Y, you only worry about intersection.
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Programming is a very, very good X; if you have it, you have WIDE discretion in picking Y. (My pick was "Japanese" early in career.)
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Life being what happens to you while you're busy making plans, it turns out that intersection of software and marketing more valuable.
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But if I hadn't been bushwhacked by entrepreneurship, I'd probably be comfortable, though flying between Mountain View and Tokyo a lot.
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