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You and Your Local Gradient

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About New Archive You and Your Local Gradient expanded comment 2025-05-21 • status: in-progress • importance: moderate certainty: medium brief note on my approach / on being a budget nat friedman Most people don't get jobs through the online application portal Trying to mastermind career plans is silly. Instead being reactive to local opportunities is a much more useful skill than trying to aim for global end points. You can always be doing things and producing value. Life is a video game but the map and scoring system are hard to understand. There is of course value to deep thinking and planning in solitude but that's probably not your comparative advantage. Network effects are easier to implement and produce results faster. Two reasons: outside of medicine or law, most people don't get into good positions by writing a series of steps on paper and following each step to get it directly. That rarely works. Your plans often aren't that good. Instead, you can exploit local opportuniti

brief note on my approach / on being a budget nat friedman Most people don't get jobs through the online application portal Trying to mastermind career plans is silly. Instead being reactive to local opportunities is a much more useful skill than trying to aim for global end points. You can always be doing things and producing value. Life is a video game but the map and scoring system are hard to understand. There is of course value to deep thinking and planning in solitude but that's probably not your comparative advantage. Network effects are easier to implement and produce results faster. T

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