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Some types of insight is still valuable, and tends to stick longer: * "Your perception of [practice] is wrong". Networking isn't sales or marketing, it's helpi
by nicbou 4y ago
Some types of insight is still valuable, and tends to stick longer:
* "Your perception of [practice] is wrong". Networking isn't sales or marketing, it's helping each other and building things together without sending invoices.
* "You value the wrong things". You are paid to create value, not write code. Negotiation skills pay more than technical skills [1][2]
* "The world doesn't work that way". A lot of the content you read is sponsored [3]
* "You're doing something unpleasant". Don't ask to ask [4]
[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
[2] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
[4] https://dontasktoask.com/ https://dontasktoask.com/
- matwood 4y ago> You are paid to create value, not write code. When I was in college in the late 90s I was fortunate enough to figure this out through experience. First, there was a real fear all programming jobs were going to be outsourced. So I decided I needed programming + something else (in this case business). Second, as a sophomore I got a job at a small custom software shop in town (it was the late 90s - if you had a pulse you get a 'programming' job). Our clients didn't care about the code, the language it was written in or anything else technical. They only cared about what it did, and if it solved their problem. It also connected 'solve customer problem' to 'getting paid' in a very direct way.
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