Career advice for the pre-AI era looked like this: Work as creatively and productively as you can. Solve not just the problem put in front of you but the broader problems it reveals. Learn to use the most modern tools that can help you do your work. Carefully check your work; assume there are errors,…
I started my career at age 23. It’s 40 years later. And I’ve finally figured out what I was doing all that time. Sure I was accumulating skills and experiences and figuring out ways to get well paid for doing things I was good at. But that’s just work. As it turned out, the most…
I was a math major and had ambitions to be a mathematician. That didn’t happen. Instead, I found myself in the business world. In contrast to writing, which I consider an essential skill for almost any job, advanced mathematical ability is not clearly necessary for most jobs. But as I look back at my career,…