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A list of career advice for engineers
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Breakout Career Notes — A list of career advice for engineers
Chris Barber
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Joost Schuur
If you're interested in advice along the same vein, I recommend John Sonmez' Simple Programmer videos on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/#/user/jsonmez
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Chris Barber
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@joostschuur
nice! this url should work better for others -
https://www.youtube.com/user/jso...
. what's the most useful thing you can remember him talking about
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Chris Barber
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This is a list of career advice aimed at ambitious people. We compiled this from across the web — founders, investors, and so on. Meta-advice: post people aren’t very thoughtful about their careers. Being thoughtful is generally good advice.
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Alibek Datbayev
Great notes! And I personally love their breakoutlist.com! Totally awesome!
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Evan Varsamis
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great list thanks for sharing :)
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Chris Barber
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@evanvar
out of curiosity, what was the most counter intuitive advice
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