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by maverickJ 6y ago
Being willing to be in a low status role that either grants you an opportunity to learn quickly or an opportunity to solve hard problems is a super power in my opinion. Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest inventors in recent memories and he
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Interesting points raised.
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This ties in with the theme of this newsletter https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/take-the-role-and-pr... about Nikola Tesla and starting your first job in an industry you're new too. "Many a-times, br
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by maverickJ 6y ago
The following books below might be of help to you. 1. First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran - https://amzn.to/3m2Hq8N 2. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose - https://amzn.to/3dEXY3M 3. On Writing: A
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Sometimes you just have to copy what worked for someone else in their venture and apply it to your own venture. I know that the world tells us that we need to be original; that we need to come up with new ideas to apply to our lives, career
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How to Win the Early Stages of Your Career(leveragethoughts.substack.com)
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Some of the key points for early career progress are: 1. Seek the counsel of trusted mentors. 2. Pick accelerated learning over money at the beginning of your career. 3. If given the opportunity to take remuneration in form of equity, take
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Career Excellence Is Not Driven by Quantitative Factors Alone(leveragethoughts.substack.com)
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You're welcome.
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>I can't wrap my mind around why would anyone pay for what are you doing, let alone so many people Your mental model of the world is not the mental model everyone has of the world. Your quoted sentence above comes from the result on
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In life, we tend to sometimes believe that once we have done great work and even shown great work, that the bright lights of Vegas will come illuminate us like the sun illuminates the earth. What a painful and unproductive belief!!! What be
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It's what I like to call finding the audience for your work. The author of the post as you rightly pointed out built an audience from the Ruby world. This article https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/cracking-t
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Thanks for being open. Let's assume you have the right products to make it easier. Have you considered finding the right audience for your work? You failures so far might just be that the right audience for your work has not yet been f
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Interesting comment. How do you capture value if I may ask? This article https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/dont-hinge-your-care... Uses Nikola Tesla ad an expample of not depending on your technical skills alone
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It's also important that one understands the career game. Especially early on. See this https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/early-career-tactics... for example In this dynamic world, one need to constantly ass
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How would you go about choosing that one project?
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Interesting article. The author has made an interesting conclusion and provided interesting premises to support it. In my opinion, it depends on what your career goal is and what you want out of life. If you are in a position where you use
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Qualitative Factors Drive Excellence(leveragethoughts.substack.com)
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Muddled.
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Writing puts thoughts to paper. Muffled thoughts don't make good sentences. A collection of sentences makes a paragraph. Therefore, muffled thoughts can't make a paragraph. Where am I going with the above: By writing, we find out
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Nature of Excellence and Its Application(leveragethoughts.substack.com)
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Sleep is incredibly important for forming new connections in the brain. I just want to add another aspect of learning; The importance of focus. I will start by saying: "Do not engage the mind in the intense pursuit of too many things a
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Levine's articles are very educational and interesting at the same time. He uses a style that sometimes takes an obscure and bland topic to become very interesting; Thereby making the reader interested in the topic. That he has done th
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1.Do a postmortem on every project that you undertake. 2.Go through existing projects and see if you can structure them differently and the benefits changing the structure will provide. 3.Buy and read The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge ht
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JamesClear is fantastic. You might like https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/
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If you like to get practical ideas to apply to your life from the field of business,finance, psychology and science, the newsletter from leveragethoughts is great. The link is https://leveragethoughts.substack.com Some of the to
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The Un-Importance of Your First Job Title(leveragethoughts.substack.com)
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There are early career nuggets that one can take from Dimon despite him being born into wealth. 1. Seek mentorship: One might not be able to call an exec at a top company but you might be able to use the career services at ones university 2
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How to Accelerate Your Career: The Jamie Dimon Way(leveragethoughts.substack.com)
7 points by maverickJ 6y ago|3 comments
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Interesting. We might see an increase in the amount of wrongly reported data as a result of the global lockdown. One can only wonder what the consequences of data underreporting might be? This reminds me of the below event which you can rea

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