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Scalable vs. Non-Scalable Careers
Professions where you are paid by the hour are not scalable. A prostitute who charges $100 an hour only has 24 hours in a day. At some point, she will hit a ceiling on her earnings. Similarly, dent…
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 4,748 posts.
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A student's guide to startups (2006)
October 2006 (This essay is derived from a talk at MIT.) Till recently graduating seniors had two choices: get a job or go to grad school. I think there will increasingly be a third option: to start your own startup. But how common will that be? I'm sure the default will always be to get a job, but starting a startup…
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The lost cult of Microsoft program managers
Some of you know I worked at Microsoft years ago (’94-’03) as what they call a program manager. In any other company the job would be known as team lead or project manager, and it was a…
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If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
The Courage Fallacy In 2005, Lisa Feuer quit her marketing job. She had held this same position throughout her 30s before deciding, at the age of ... Read more
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Tales of a Bottom Feeder Recruiting Agency
I'm a moron. At least according to the well formed opinion of one Kevin Higgins of H.T. Associates. He formed this opinion after I repeatedl...
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He’s Only in Field Service
The most important early customers for your startup usually turn out to be quite different from who you think they’re going to be. He’s Only in Field Service When I was at Zilog, the Z8…
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The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort
I remember the time well. I was 27 years old. I finally had my own apartment for the first time. I still hadn’t bought a new car yet, but I was jazzed that I had a 4 year old Mazda RX 7. 4 Years old was as good as new to me, and driving a gold RX 7 back in the day was fun as well.
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Real Advice Hurts
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
> "It is essential for a man to strive with all his heart, and to understand that it is difficult even to reach the average if he does not have the i…
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Failure must always be an option
An essay I wrote six years ago about some of my experiences working for NASA has gotten some recent attention on Reddit and Hacker News . ...
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Five whys
At 3:30 in the morning of January 10th, 2008, a shrill chirping woke up our system administrator, Michael Gorsuch, asleep at home in Brooklyn. It was a text message from Nagios, our network monitor…
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Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD
Jamie’s blog about software, startups, and swimming (and other things that don’t alliterate).
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How My Brain Kept Me from Co-Founding YouTube
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.