Build Personal Moats - by Erik Torenberg - Ideas & Musings
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My favorite career advice
My favorite career advice is to develop a “personal moat.” A personal moat is a set of unique and accumulating competitive advantages in the context of your career. Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage specific to you that's not only durable, but compounds over time. This should be something that's: Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you) Impossible without rare and/or valuable skills Unique to your own talents & interests Legible, in the sense that your expertise should be easy to describe, easy to share, and makes people want to…
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related reading
- Build Personal Moats - Erik Torenbergeriktorenberg.substack.com
- Build Personal Moatssubstack.com
- How To Be Successful - Sam Altmanblog.samaltman.com
- See your Career as a Producteriktorenberg.substack.com
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- Career Advice That Doesn’t Suckhumaninvariant.com
- chapters - by Molly Mielke McCarthy - Mind Mudmindmud.substack.com
- mirrorsmilky.substack.com
- Moats are Not Walls. They Are Bricks. - Valerie Tetuvaltetu.framer.website
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- Build a Personal Monopoly - David Perellperell.com
- Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t – Casey Handmer's blogcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com