ecbd0d48
when i was 24, a staff engineer told me: "in your 20s, pick the job where youll learn the most, not the one that pays the most. in your 30s, cash in on what you learned."
i followed that advice. took a 40k pay cut to join a startup where i learned distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and how to ship products. then at 30 i joined meta as a senior and made more in one year than i made in the previous three combined.
TC compounds on skill. skill compounds on learning. optimize the root variable.
be3dbd78
this only works if you can afford the pay cut. good advice for the privileged, tone deaf for everyone else
855143b7
counterpoint: you can learn AND get paid well. google new grad pays 200k+ and youll learn from the best engineers in the world
9151aa05
followed the opposite advice. optimized for TC from day 1. im 32, making 500k, and bored out of my mind because i specialized too early
fa3ef202
the compound metaphor is perfect though
