the lottery of career success: or why you may want to bribe OpenAI
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I. Have you ever thought about paying a company like McKinsey or Google $500,000 to work there?
I. Have you ever thought about paying a company like McKinsey or Google $500,000 to work there? Maybe not, but it’s a bit weird how few people think about doing this, or treat getting a job at one of these employers as akin to winning a lottery ticket. There is a rough heuristic that many people have, rightly or wrongly: that one’s career outcome broadly matches their skill set and hard work — if you work at a prestigious company, you are the kind of person who deserves to work at a prestigious company. But I truly believe that career success is much more random and like a lottery than most…
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