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I find myself in this description since forever, but I still can't figure out how to really take advantage of it: it's not always possible to behave like this i

I find myself in this description since forever, but I still can't figure out how to really take advantage of it: it's not always possible to behave like this in your daily job and in your personal life you typically spend a lot of mental energy to understand what to do instead of doing. I fear to end up with a lot of skills and potential unused. It also reminds me of the Scanner people introduced by Barbara Sher in her book https://www.amazon.com/Refuse-Choose-Interests-Passions-Hobbies/dp/1594866260 https://www.amazon.com/Refuse-Choose-Interests-Passions-Hobb...

jasonkester 4y ago
still can't figure out how to really take advantage of it Demonstrate that you can build and ship entire products from scratch. Get a bunch of them out in the wild and make sure everybody knows that you built every piece. Shipping things is a vanishingly rare thing these days, so it's valuable. There are companies full of amazing engineers who are all sitting around blocked waiting for backend to give them the API endpoint or the designers to finish tweaking the button. Meet the person running that company and he will hire you to start this afternoon building the thing they actually want built, but can't because these clowns can't ship the last thing.
fuzzfactor 4y ago
>I fear to end up with a lot of skills and potential unused. The sooner you can achieve a lot of different unused skills & potentials, the better you can end up with fewer of them in disuse.