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The Secret to Career Success

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The Secret to Career Success Share I don't want to overhype this, so let's start with some caveats: I could be wrong. If I'm right, it'll only make your career as successful as mine, so there is a natural implicit cap here. I am not like, you know, Jawed Karim or Mark Zuckerberg or anything. This probably only works as well as it does at fast-moving internet companies like the ones I tend to work at. Okay, here's the secret to career success: Focus primarily on making everyone around you succeed. That's all. This is not just the simple "altruism is an effective strategy in repeated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma," there are a whole host of real reasons why this is a good strategy for career success. Consider the following: First, realize that your career success is not primarily or significantly determined by you. You can work hard, you can strategize, you can plan your career, but there are a lot of other larger forces at work. You might make an incremental difference if you do

The Secret to Career Success The Secret to Career Success Share I don't want to overhype this, so let's start with some caveats: I could be wrong. If I'm right, it'll only make your career as successful as mine, so there is a natural implicit cap here. I am not like, you know, Jawed Karim or Mark Zuckerberg or anything. This probably only works as well as it does at fast-moving internet companies like the ones I tend to work at. Okay, here's the secret to career success: Focus primarily on making everyone around you succeed. That's all. This is not just the simple "altruism is an effective str

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