> Every single job that I ever got in my life feels like a lucky day.
I think I read on here about the concept of successful people really just doing more things to increase their luck surface area.
In other words, you set yourself up to interview as best as you can, then make a bunch of connections and schedule a bunch of interviews, and (hopefully) at least one of those will be on a good day.
It's such a weird and, frankly, shitty way to make hiring decisions though. But at the same time, we don't have much better.
I think I read on here about the concept of successful people really just doing more things to increase their luck surface area.
Mike Bloomberg famously wrote in his (a bit shoddy) auto-biography: "Work hard and you might get lucky." (paraphrased) I complete agree. In _some_ form, it is a bit like "Fake it until you make it" -- but the better side of the same coin!
I think I read on here about the concept of successful people really just doing more things to increase their luck surface area.
In other words, you set yourself up to interview as best as you can, then make a bunch of connections and schedule a bunch of interviews, and (hopefully) at least one of those will be on a good day.
It's such a weird and, frankly, shitty way to make hiring decisions though. But at the same time, we don't have much better.