Max Hodak - Avoid little leagues
Little leagues are places where you’ll develop more slowly, to an asymptote that’s lower than it might be elsewhere. The undergraduate investment club is a little league for being a professional analyst. TEDx is a little league for TED. Little leagues are relative: being an intern at a technology company at thirteen or taking non-AP Calculus at eight probably don’t count as little leagues.
One of my oldest personal rules is avoid little leagues. Little leagues are places where you’ll develop more slowly, to an asymptote that’s lower than it might be elsewhere. The undergraduate investment club is a little league for being a professional analyst. TEDx is a little league for TED. Little leagues are relative: being an intern at a technology company at thirteen or taking non-AP Calculus at eight probably don’t count as little leagues. When I went back to school after my first company, a friend tried to pull me into an “entrepreneurship” group he was putting together. They had…
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