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Where should you work? - David Cahn's Substack

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I meet with 200-300 recent college grads per year. I do this because a) I think these people can contribute a lot to the startups I work with, b) I genuinely enjoy it, and c) These conversations help me understand the world better. The most common topic of conversation in these discussions is: Where should I work? For all the education that happens in universities, new grads barely know where to start to answer the questions, “What is the point of work and what should I look for in a job?” The Algorithm Because most college grads don’t have a strategic framework for making career decisions, they generally default to what I call “the Algorithm.” The algorithm says, “Go work wherever the smartest people 1-2 classes above me went to work.” Or even more simply, “Go work where the people I admire work.” The algorithm is simple and generally effective. It turns out smart people do generally make good decisions, and bootstrapping off of other people’s decisions in the absence of information i

I meet with 200-300 recent college grads per year. I do this because a) I think these people can contribute a lot to the startups I work with, b) I genuinely enjoy it, and c) These conversations help me understand the world better. The most common topic of conversation in these discussions is: Where should I work? For all the education that happens in universities, new grads barely know where to start to answer the questions, “What is the point of work and what should I look for in a job?” The Algorithm Because most college grads don’t have a strategic framework for making career…

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