This blog post doesn't have much useful content, but I'll add a piece of advice I wish someone had told me when I was ±15: Most decision makers are fundamental

This blog post doesn't have much useful content, but I'll add a piece of advice I wish someone had told me when I was ±15: Most decision makers are fundamentally lazy. When they're choosing the person to promote to manager, the employee to hire, the startup company to invest in, or the restaurant to have lunch at, the decision methodology used is in no way optimal or hyper-rational. It's mostly just based what's familiar, nearby, and available. And so realistically when great opportunities are available, the people getting them are not the best and brightest in the world, they're the best and brightest in the room – which often pale in comparison to the world at large. But they're good enough, familiar, and available, and so they are able to capitalize on those opportunities. Thus the piece of advice is: find that room and get yourself inside, because the opportunity is not going to come looking for you.