Wisdom from the Internet
learn to sell. learn to build. if you can do both, you'll be unstoppable.
selling = marketing, persuasion, recruiting, fundraising, inspiring people
building: designing and operating a service, logistics, programming
start with building because it requires more focused time; but sales scales better over time
arm yourself with specific knowledge (found by pursuing genuine curiosity, either highly technical or creative, can't be outsourced or automated), accountability (take business risk under your own name), and leverage (capital, people or team, and products).
on the job training -> pattern matching into highly complex environments, building judgment in a specific domain
foundational skills -> build on top of it
become best in the world at what you do. redefine what you until that's true.
it's much easier to be the top 5 percentile at three or four things than it is to be literally the number one at something.
finance (fundraising, planning and forecasting) + biz knowledge + team building + technical understanding
compound interest: 1.01^365 = 37.78 while 0.99^365 = 0.03