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Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it. It is much more about understanding than purely hard work.
Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
Once something works, it’s no longer technology.
If they can train you to do it, then eventually they will train a computer to do
If you have specific knowledge, you have accountability and you have leverage; they have to pay you what you’re worth. If they pay you what you’re worth, then you can get your time back—you can be hyper-efficient. You’re not doing meetings for meetings’ sake, you’re not trying to impress other people, you’re not writing things down to make it look like you did work. All you care about is the actual work itself. When you do just the actual work itself, you’ll be far more productive, far more effcient.
If you want to be part of a great tech company, then you need to be able to SELL or BUILD. If you don’t do either, learn.
Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough.”
I can create a new business within three months:
“In a long-term game, it seems that everybody is making each other rich. And in a short-term game, it seems like everybody is making themselves rich.”
Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering.
