A young person should worry about building a rounded intellectual inner life rather than about their career, because they will spend their whole life inside their own head.

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• Young people should not think in terms of a career at all: a career is imposed on you, while a calling comes from within and transcends it. NONeri Oxman1 Sept 2023
• A person should run their own life strategically, choosing each year by what their future self would thank them for doing. MPMark Pincus2 Jun 2026
• Managers who are not deep in IC work should worry, because there will not be much middle management; managers will build just like ICs. GTGeoff Teehan23 Sept 2026
• Junior hiring matters more in an AI world, not less, because younger people are more open-minded and more native to the new ways of working. ESElizabeth Stone19 Jul 2026
• The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel. JKJeff Kaplan11 Mar 2026

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