For careers, too, you don’t know what the best plan is until you try. It was only after I spent time in that graduate program that I learned academia wasn’t the path for me. When I moved to the business world, I mistakenly thought my competitive advantage was being able to hold complexity in my head and master abstractions. But when I started working, I discovered my real advantage in the Internet industry was having the ability to think simultaneously about individual psychology and social dynamics on a massive scale.
