Early career years are painful. You feel like an idiot 98% of the time - lost, confused and insecure. I wish I had a playbook on principles for my first job. So I put one together. Here are 9 threads packed with lessons about building a career I wish I knew sooner:

As they grow in size, teams within megacorps and startups tend to implicitly bias more towards Project Thinking and not enough Product Thinking. Product Thinking is a mindset and a process that, once you see, you cannot unsee it. Product Thinking, Project Thinking, a thread:

There is indeed a pretty wide contrast between the conversations (and often outcomes) when we are in Project Thinking mode vs. when we are in Product Thinking mode. Here’s a cheat sheet that can help us better understand how these modes differ and in what ways they are valuable:

I quit my job a few weeks ago with little to no experience to pursue a web3 career with nothing lined up. tldr; it worked. Today, I began my first day as a blockchain analyst Coinbase 🛡️. Here’s how: A guide to making that web2 ➡️ #WEB3 jump as seamless as possible. 🧵

Happy new year! Today, a mini-tweetstorm of some of the things I've said and written over the past decade, and what I think about those subjects today.

I was today years old when I learned that Slack is an acronym for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge

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how to miss opportunity: evaluate everything in its present state

A fairly common bias in B2B is that we think our product plays a more central role in our customers’ work than is really the case. This makes us underestimate customers’ inertia & overestimate our product’s value prop. Easy to understand, but very hard to remember in the moment.

You'd think that tech startups with $1B, $4B, $6B, $10B, $17B valuations operate pretty well. In reality, many of these places are held together by duct tape. When inside: you can barely believe it. It's also why they pay the big bucks to hire people who sort lots of this out.

Say the least. Absorb the most.

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Nous reviendrons. 🇫🇷🙏🏽

All Rules Are Made Up We're taught that we're supposed to: → Graduate college → Get a 9-5 job and stay there → Work for someone else for 40 years → Retire at 65 (if you're lucky) These are made up. Tech enables you to bend the world to your will.