the excellent letter by James Currier, the exited founder and now founder of
Jiff, to his alma mater on how to do something exciting instead of
wasting your life at a cube job.
"Most people think that working for a big or known company will give them
good experience. That’s kind of like saying learning to sit
still for dental surgery is good experience. Sure, it’s an
experience, but there are life paths where you don’t
have to have dental surgery, or work for a big company, to
have the best life. In fact, I would argue that you learn the
wrong things working for a big company, and that it’s actually not
good experience. A good experience is when you really make
something happen in the world. Big companies teach you how to
work through layers of bureaucracy and how to solve problems
in very risk-averse ways — in short, how to make something happen in
their organization. A big company is not the safe career choice. It’s the risky choice. It risks your mind and your life. "
Read the full article at
http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2008/08/20/ooga-labs/
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