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Little correlation between effort and reward

My biggest payday came from a junior role at a startup I got extremely lucky at



Probably the most important of the thread. Working smarter > working harder and communicating about your work and its impact is as important (sometimes more) than the work itself.


and that luck plays a much bigger role in success than most people think (we prefer to think our success is the result of effort and skill)




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