This is a topic I love talking about, and since you’re a professional lesswronger, I’ll try to comment in the spirit of making predictions about random people who will read my comment :)
Here goes:
Are you a software developer reading this?
My prior is that you already want to build skill—but you aren’t so sure how, and this is your bottle neck.
If you’re not yet working professionally: consider reading this.
If you are working professionally but think you could maybe grow faster: I probably agree :) consider helping me out review some draft articles about how to do that. I offer video calls too if the articles won’t be enough.
I agree with Ruby:
Working on “hard” things (as he defined them) is great. I love the distinction between “waking up at 5am” and “running a startup”!
Mentoring is great (but I predict you’re having a hard time finding good mentoring)
Working in a company that knows what it’s doing is great (but I predict (with lower certainty) you’re having a hard time figuring out if the company you’re considering is actually great or if this is just something people are selling you)
Instead of “Earn to Skill”, how about “Earn to Learn”?
This is a topic I love talking about, and since you’re a professional lesswronger, I’ll try to comment in the spirit of making predictions about random people who will read my comment :)
Here goes:
Are you a software developer reading this?
My prior is that you already want to build skill—but you aren’t so sure how, and this is your bottle neck.
If you’re not yet working professionally: consider reading this.
If you are working professionally but think you could maybe grow faster: I probably agree :) consider helping me out review some draft articles about how to do that. I offer video calls too if the articles won’t be enough.
I agree with Ruby:
Working on “hard” things (as he defined them) is great. I love the distinction between “waking up at 5am” and “running a startup”!
Mentoring is great (but I predict you’re having a hard time finding good mentoring)
Working in a company that knows what it’s doing is great (but I predict (with lower certainty) you’re having a hard time figuring out if the company you’re considering is actually great or if this is just something people are selling you)
Instead of “Earn to Skill”, how about “Earn to Learn”?
I think Ben West coined it :)
How did my predictions go?
Let me know!
And hey Ruby :)
Well dang.