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I think you hit the hammer on the nail. Boring problems are quite manageable when they are also important and meaningful. The general lack of purpose most of u

• davidjnelson 8y ago
  In my experience it starts with relationships. Co workers, partner, parents etc. Then sometimes you crush an interview at a place that already has scale and you are offered a pool of problems to work on, and you pick the most important but also probably scariest one. The types of multi year results that come from that make for cool stories. For instance, patient outcomes from a feature you built in an electronic medical record get published in major newspapers.