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[Slava Akhmechet @spakhm]

Long range career advice. (Won't help you get a job tomorrow, this is a ~10-20 year thing)

You want to run two processes. Your main loop:

1. Knock on doors, many outside your league, and get yourself in a room with the most competent people who will have you.
2. Work your ass off to be reliably useful to them. Like, really, _really_ hard. However hard you think you're working to be reliably useful, work ten times harder. Also, be cheerful.
3. Every once in a while pop your head out and go to step 1.

Your background loop: look around for weird asymmetric opportunities. A startup to found/join, a project to hack on, an angel investment into a friend's company, whatever. When your heart sings, jump on it. (You will fail a lot but that's fine so long as you handle failure well, I'll cover that in another post)

In exchange for working really hard you get two things. First, knowledge/experience-- you learn a ton. Second, relationships-- ppl will remember how great it was to work with you. Knowledge and relationships with competent ppl create crazy asymmetric opportunities. You then jump on those. (There is a lot of twitter slop about compounding, well this is what career compounding looks like.)

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Now some failure modes. Do _not_ do this:

"I deserve much better than this company/role, I'm just going to begrudgingly collect a paycheck" --> first, you deserve what the market clears and that's that. Second, if you act this way you'll only hurt yourself. Your colleagues will remember you as a grouch and it will wreck the compounding loop. Third, it's a very unpleasant state to be in, and you should choose not to be in it.

"But I work at Home Depot, what's there to compound?" --> that's extremely shortsighted. Maybe you do a super good job helping a customer who then has an open spot and remembers you. Maybe your store manager becomes a regional manager and calls you. Maybe years down the line your quiet peer is looking for a partner to start their own store. Maybe none of this happens, but it doesn't matter because empirically ppl who try hard to be useful wherever they are tend to do great, and people who don't, don't. (Home Depot is a metaphor, obviously)

"I hate this place, I quit! And anyway they're a faceless corporation that will lay me off any time." --> don't do that. The company may be a faceless corporation, but your colleagues are not faceless. They bet on you, hopefully you did a great job, and now they depend on you. Leaving is never easy, but do it in a way that respects the trust ppl put in you.

"Everyone around me is an idiot, I hate this!" --> maybe they are, or maybe you're not ready and some day will discover you were wrong about this. In any case you can learn from everyone and everything. So do that and be useful, don't break the compounding loop because opportunities will surprise you and things are often not what they seem.

“_I_ should have been promoted not that other guy/why is my manager layering me, screw this!” --> every time that happened i eventually understood I deserved it, you probably do too. Don’t hold grudges, do your best to figure out how to learn from this and move on, it will make sense eventually.

P.S. it helps if you’re a little talented.

[JosH100 @josh_wills]

wtf did anthropic do to opus 5

this is like gpt 3.5-level stupid

[Chidi @sirchidi_]

@PIDOMNIGERIA How is there match win bonus for everyone but the players?? that actually WINs the match.

[Chidi @sirchidi_]

Justify these fee increases all we want, doesn’t change the fact that many families in the country would have to withdraw their wards from school. Are there any genuine/transparent charities in the country that cater to such cases?

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Please fact check me.

Average tuition fees at Nigerian public universities = ₦50,000 or $65.

Average tuition fees at Ghanaian public universities = GHS17,145 or $1503.

Average tuition fees at British public universities = £9,250 or $11,900.

Average tuition fees at European public universities = €10,000 or $11,128.

Average tuition fees at American public universities = $10,400.

Yet, you are here saying 'Nigeria is finished', 'Nigeria is useless' because of an increase of tuition fees from ₦19,000 to ₦190,250 at one university?

Ghana has a minimum wage of GHS446, or $40 per month. Yet, Ghanaians pay twenty five times what we pay in tuition. Do Ghanaians earn twenty five times what Nigerians earn in minimum wage? Is fuel cheaper in Ghana than in Nigeria? I was in Ghana two months ago. Believe me when I say that you would fare better economically in Nigeria than in Ghana. Is Nigeria as wealthy as the UK, US, and the EU? Nigeria is not such a bad country. If you think the cost of education is too high, then try the cost of illiteracy!

#TableShaker

[Chidi @sirchidi_]

@allenholub

[𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐘 𝐀𝐃𝐀 @Auntyadaa]

But Oke was at home.

[Dr. Kelechi Anyikude @KelechiAFC]

Different protest groups have joined together. It’s madness here fam. People are angry. Rumours that we are marching to the parliament

#EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeraNOW #LekkiMassacre

[Temie Giwa-Tubosun @temite]

Please do NOT attack hospitals! Please please - Health workers are NOT the enemy! Our job is to save lives. Please please DO NOT attack hospitals!

[Chidi @sirchidi_]

@Asa_official @elnathan_john @MBuhari we are waiting...he needs to speak!
https://t.co/W3LHPcQIW1

[Chidi @sirchidi_]

@That_IjebuBadoo @ManlikeMubbs I have informed everyone I know who is not social media to only watch Arise TV.

[Chidi @sirchidi_]

20.10.2020 --- never forget!💔💔💔 #EndSARS #NigeriaIsBleeding

[Folu Storms @folustorms]

SHAME ON YOU @MBuhari SHAME ON YOU @jidesanwoolu YOU OUTRIGHT ATTACK YOUR OWN CITIZENS FOR DARING TO DEMAND BETTER! SHAAAAMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! #EndSARS

[Genevieve Nnaji MFR @GenevieveNnaji1]

Unarmed protesters bearing the National flag, singing the national anthem gunned down by the very people assigned to protect them. 💔. #EndSARS

[FK. @fkabudu]

Ambulances are on their way to Lekki! Everyone has been afraid to go but they are on their way! More than one.

I can't believe any of this is real

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

Please share this story. The world needs to know or be reminded. #EndSARS

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

Do you know how incompetent you have to be to give federal appointment to dead people? Not one, not two, six!!!!!!!!!!

[Sulaiman @thesasway]

With the support from @hackSultan We are here in Gombe educating people about the #EndSARS protest that's be n going on all over the country.

[shaynee @shaynee01]

A generation says: Off the mic
A generation says: Soro soke

I know where I stand.

#EndSARS

[baby. @babybear___]

Chijioke’s dad swam in the infamous ezu filled with dead bodies! Turning the faces of rotting corpse to see if any happened to have chijioke’s face. 💔

Everybody pls stay angry this is far from over!!! #EndSARS