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Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by Aeolun »

peteretep wrote: post #67
tirumaraiselvan wrote: post #58

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>The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying In technical terms, what you are suggesting is that the article is making a claim which is unfalsifiable. But actually it is falsifiable. All you have to do is find a person who has diverse skills bu…

> All you have to do is find a person who has diverse skills but is unsuccessful I know many people like this, but I suspect the No True Scotsman fallacy would get invoked.

They’re clearly not skilled enough at their diverse skills.

It’d be a bit like me trying to sell myself as a master of multiple instruments.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by Double_a_92 »

csomar wrote: post #47
nopinsight wrote: post #32

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This assumes that the pension system there will be able to sustain itself in a few decades hence despite low birth rates and limited immigration. Also, most people in developing countries, i.e. most people in the world, do not have that option.

Yes. Many people cites Europe/France as a good example of retirement/healthcare and forget that the pension system is a Scam. They are basically paying current retirees with what the current employees are paying. A state-lead Ponzi Scheme. The system will eventually implode.

As long as you have many young people and few old, that's a good system. Basically "taking care of your parents" but through the state in a collective manner.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by godelmachine »

tralarpa wrote: post #40
godelmachine wrote: post #35

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>> Eat well. Sleep. Maintain relationships with people you care about. Work hard, pay attention to what you're doing and think critically. That's all there is to it. That’s my takeaway.

Hmm, I don't know...These sound like good advices to do your job well and might even lead to happiness (which is good of course). But if your goal is to have a successful career maybe this would be more useful: Word hard on the right things, pay attention to what the others are doing and praise your own work uncritically :)

>>praise your own work uncritically

Am I not supposed to be critical of my work, and review it not pulling any punches, without being economical with the Truth?

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by Aeolun »

SpanishConf wrote: post #29
killjoywashere wrote: post #5

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Undergrad in physics. 7 years in the military. Medical school, self-taught computing (mainly Unix, web stuff, and python), surgical internship, more programming, residency, more programming. Now medical director of a clinical lab with 40 staff and major research in progress, published, overseeing clinical and research employees across 10 timezones, working across 13 time zones, have briefed to highest levels of gover…

Jesus Fucking Christ. As someone who's 19 years old and struggling with life (see my post history if you want to know more, but it ain't pretty, heh) you've sure done a lot of things and congratulations for you success! You seem to have an unlimited thirst for knowledge. I envy that at a personal level.

If you’re still 19 years old you’ll get there.

Especially if you want to.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by nopinsight »

Double_a_92 wrote: post #72
csomar wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Many people cites Europe/France as a good example of retirement/healthcare and forget that the pension system is a Scam. They are basically paying current retirees with what the current employees are paying. A state-lead Ponzi Scheme. The system will eventually implode.

As long as you have many young people and few old, that's a good system. Basically "taking care of your parents" but through the state in a collective manner.

Few developed countries--the US and Australia are the only exceptions I can think of--have that population structure.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by EForEndeavour »

tirumaraiselvan wrote: post #58
_kxbd wrote: post #19

I don't find these sorts of articles valuable. The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying. If we remove all the filler in this article (more or less the entire article), it amounts to "be okay at multiple things rather than trying to be good a…

>The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying In technical terms, what you are suggesting is that the article is making a claim which is unfalsifiable. But actually it is falsifiable. All you have to do is find a person who has diverse skills bu…

Finding a single counterexample works in mathematics to disprove a theorem, but not in this situation. It is silly to claim that having diverse skills guarantees success. The article doesn't even claim that; it explicitly mentions increasing the odds of success. To "disprove" this claim, you'd need to design and run a study that looks for a statistical relationship between success and skill diversity, both of which you'd have to quantify somehow.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by Amygaz »

tralarpa wrote: post #40
godelmachine wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Eat well. Sleep. Maintain relationships with people you care about. Work hard, pay attention to what you're doing and think critically. That's all there is to it. That’s my takeaway.

Hmm, I don't know...These sound like good advices to do your job well and might even lead to happiness (which is good of course). But if your goal is to have a successful career maybe this would be more useful: Word hard on the right things, pay attention to what the others are doing and praise your own work uncritically :)

The question is: “what is your definition of success?” or “what is success to you? or “what do you think will make other people say you are successful?”

For a lot of uninspired and uncreative people, it’s mostly about the 3rd question, and it’s money, just money...

And they probably subscribe to a blog saying to blog everyday, and that’s how you get poor quality, uninspiring blog.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by Chris2048 »

_kxbd wrote: post #19

I don't find these sorts of articles valuable. The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying. If we remove all the filler in this article (more or less the entire article), it amounts to "be okay at multiple things rather than trying to be good a…

> Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying.

Worked for Agile ducks

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by matwood »

_kxbd wrote: post #19

I don't find these sorts of articles valuable. The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying. If we remove all the filler in this article (more or less the entire article), it amounts to "be okay at multiple things rather than trying to be good a…

Great comment. For the article writer it seemed like a numbers game or checklist. Learn X languages (whatever 'learn' means here) or read X number of books. IME, what you learn and read is more important than the raw numbers.

I'm selective in what I will devote a large amount of time doing. If I'm reading a book for something other than downtime enjoyment, I want to make sure it's a book that I will get something useful out of (bonus points to books that provide enjoyment and usefulness).

Breadth of knowledge is useful, but someone also needs depth in something.

Re: Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Post by JackFr »

Chris2048 wrote: post #78
_kxbd wrote: post #19

I don't find these sorts of articles valuable. The template is simple: Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying. If we remove all the filler in this article (more or less the entire article), it amounts to "be okay at multiple things rather than trying to be good a…

> Write generic advice that sounds nice, and is never controversial. Make sure it's super vague so you don't have to take any accountability for it, you can move the goalposts of what you're saying. Worked for Agile ducks

Well in fairness some Agile is controversial.
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