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be around smart people Can't stress that enough. It made a huge difference for me during university.

• theghostofLT 12y ago
  Indeed - I would say this is probably the most important thing. I spent the first three years of my career in an Office Space BigCorp environment with colleagues and managers who were - well, I don't want to say stupid, but not terribly motivated, or intellectually curious, or particularly invested in the quality of their work. Emerging from that environment into one full of extraordinarily sharp and ambitious people who had spent years honing their craft and investing in themselves, and having to suddenly perform on their level, was a shock and an extremely unpleasant lesson in opportunity costs.