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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

東京都 Tokyo
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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Shoin Wolfe  🎥 Very Important Japanese News

      I was literally the best qualified person in the prefecture to do my tax returns and it was still a poor decision. Find an accountant.https://twitter.com/shoinwolfe/status/933875484198297600 …

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      Shoin Wolfe  🎥 Very Important Japanese News @shoinwolfe
      Seriously freelancers and small business owners, don’t do your own taxes. Get accountants. They save you time and money.
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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      "Wow that's bold." No, it's not. Here's my Fermi estimate: 2 million people in Gifu 0.1% of population is an accountant-equivalent 5% of accountant-equivalents in Gifu are bilingual 10% of those are comfortable with international taxation None of other 9 people speak software.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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      Notice how quickly playing the Venn diagram game puts you in a job market of 1? This is very useful for differentiating your offering and charging more (TM). There's ~3 million software developers in the US and that number falls of scary fast when you start adding things.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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      I usually don't advocate adding technologies to increase the selectivity, since clients/employers can always pick technologies that aren't selective (for that reason specifically!). Rather, add capabilities/specialties/etc.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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      The original thesis for my career plan was "There are probably less than 1,000 software engineers in the US with useful Japanese proficiency." I still think that is approximately true, and it would keep me gainfully employed, but there exist many easier options.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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      There are a lot of commercially relevant X and Y such that the set of all software developers in your country who can both X and Y starting tomorrow fits around a dinner table, without X or Y being "top-of-the-industry" levels of skill.

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        2. Taufiq Muhammadi‏ @waruboy 24 Nov 2017
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          examples of X and Y? just to jumpstart my mind please

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 24 Nov 2017
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          Pick any two of: Application security. HIPAA compliance. "Could implement a ledger an accountant would use." Understands high-touch SaaS sales. Understands low-touch SaaS sales. Top 10% in any broader area of tech (e.g. database internals). Add any non-computer eng discipline.

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        1. Josh Doody‏ @JoshDoody 24 Nov 2017
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          I wrote a high-level thing on this (skill stacking) here in the context of avoiding stagnation (viz, getting stuck in a dead-end job): https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/dead-end-job/  (or on the @Glassdoor blog, if you like: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/skill-stacking/ …)

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        1. Thomas K Nilsson‏ @thomanil 24 Nov 2017
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          See also Scott Adams concept of "Talent Stacking" :)

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        1. Heath Borders‏ @heathborders 24 Nov 2017
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          Do you have any specific suggestions for businesses, industries that need Japanese proficiency for data engineering, analysis? I have a friend that is almost N2 proficient that's not particularly well-networked.

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