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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium 50% off Profile More Post Akira Yoshiyama ⁂ @yoshiyama_akira Article See new posts Conversation Amy Tam @amytam01 The Cost of Staying 98 470 4K 869K Every technical person I know is doing the same math right now. They won’t call it that. They’ll say they’re “exploring options” or “thinking about what’s next.” But underneath it’s the same calculation: how much is it costing me to stay where I am? Not in dollars. In time. There’s a feeling in the air that the window for making the right move is shrinking, that every quarter you spend in the wrong seat, the gap between you and the people who moved earlier gets harder to close. A year ago, career decisions in tech felt reversible. Take the wrong job, course correct in eighteen months. That assumption is breaking down. The divergence between people who repositioned early and people who are still weigh

@amytam01: The Cost of Staying Every technical person I know is doing the same math right now. They won’t call it that. They’ll say they’re “exploring options” or “thinking about what’s next.” But underneath it’s the same calculation: how much is it costing me to stay where I am? Not in dollars. In time. There’s a feeling in the air that the window for making the right move is shrinking, that every quarter you spend in the wrong seat, the gap between you and the people who moved earlier gets harder to close. A year ago, career decisions in tech felt reversible. Take the wrong job, course corr

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