The competitive landscape has changed, and young people need to adapt
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Some unspoken lessons that I've picked up through experience
The competitive landscape has changed, and young people need to adapt Some unspoken lessons that I've picked up through experience Saad Khalid Jan 05, 2026 7 1 Share I’ve spent the first few years of my adult life trying to understand the systems that determine how people find and secure opportunities. The frameworks we’re taught to use in elementary school, high school, and even college seem to break down in the real world. Traditional advice operates on assumptions about scarcity, signalling, and selection mechanisms that no longer hold. This has created a generation of young people facing r
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