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How To Build A Meaningful Career

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Meaning in a career:

• Money
• Community: physical or virtual Promo is a compliment Over a ~30 year career: only C has survived; we're all amateurs Avoid comparing, give yourself grace Space / time to take rest Losses happen, it's part of the process Be deliberate and intentional Accept the failures, understand them Luck = opportunity & preparation Balance between grinding and rest Money is an acceptable motivator Do stuff that matters Technical resilience / grit
• can land differently Avg career = ~40 years
• As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it -- Antoine de St Exupery Growth happens when you're stretching but not drowning There is no effort without error Goals first, plans third Build a meaningful career
• Avoid comparison
• Live intentionally
• Give yourself grace
• Do hard work
• embrace the unknown
• your motivation is yours and yours alone

— Kunal