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Here's your weekly dose of knowledge that will help you future-proof your career. You'll find:
- 3 Insights I’ve learned from others
- 2 Tiny Thoughts from me
- 1 Article that I’ve written
Let’s dive in. 🤿
Insights
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You can't fail if you play the infinite game of life.
"Life is the infinite game of becoming more and more yourself and designing how to express the amazingness of you in the world.
Even if an experiment fails on the way, you'll be failure-immune. You made a place in the infinite game."
– Bill Burnett & Dave Evans (with h/t to Simon Sinek) in Designing Your Life
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Attention Residue.
"When you switch from one task to another, you often still think about the last thing you did. The more often you switch, the more residue piles up – until you're eventually completely frazzled."
Solution: switch tasks less.
– Sahil Bloom in The Five Types of Wealth
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"Angel Investing is just for-profit philanthropy."
– Brad Feld
Tiny Thoughts
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Health is the ultimate flex. I'm so tired of seeing people flash their "traditional" status symbols like cars, watches, big luxury brands. None of this means anything if you're not healthy.
While wealth might be earned (or not), health is always earned. The richest person in the world couldn't buy perfect health right now. It comes from making the right choices, hard work, and long-time discipline.
Screw Rolexes. Show me your WHOOP stats.
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In a similar vein: apply strength training methods to life.
Athletes know how to train: a strict regimen, long hours, with a plan, coaches in the room, with a holistic view of nutrition, training, and sleep.
If you want to get really good at other things in life, apply the same logic. Arnold Schwarzenegger used the things he learned in the weight room to become a great actor, and later a great politician.
How? By making a plan, surrounding himself with coaches, ensuring that he's functional, and then just getting the reps in.
Article
A few days ago, at a Shawarma shop, a man approached my friend Carmine and me – he’d noticed we were speaking about all things software.
He asked: “my nephew is studying software engineering - what would you recommend to him?”.
I said: “don’t study software engineering.”
Somewhat in jest, but with a grain of truth.
This morning, I read a new paper that came out 2 weeks ago out of Stanford called “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence”.
Look at the graphs below. The more a profession can be automated by AI, the stronger the decline of headcount in junior positions. Seniors are (still) safe, as are health workers, supervisors, and - to some extent - businesspeople.
This leaves me with 2 open questions:
- Who will be the senior engineers of the future if the juniors can’t learn on the job anymore?
- What’s the best way to future proof your career (especially when you’re just starting out)?
I'm exploring these questions in today's blog post ⬇️
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Hope you have a wonderful week. The sun's shining, summer break is definitely over, good time to get after it.
LFG. 🔥
PS: Being good at something isn't enough. Good takes by Josh Swords on the three other skills needed to advance in your career.
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