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Precipitous Terrain

If you aren’t prepared for what life can throw at you, you may be in for a great fall.

As I’m sure everyone understands all too well by now, life has a way of throwing monkeywrenches into the system. If there’s anything that’s been consistent about 2020, it’s that every month seemingly has a new surprise to spring upon humanity.

Instead of traveling over smooth ground, we are on precipitous terrain. Any kind of long term forecast is currently impossible.

When chaos is the order of the day, you must be able to make and act on snap judgements without overcommitting on your previous decision. How do you do that?

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A Technologist’s Talent Stack

Earlier I talked about building a talent stack of different skills in order to increase your uniqueness and value. Below I put together an archetypical talent stack for a technologist, drawing from my own experiences. The list below is far from complete, and that’s intentional. You should design your own stack that’s unique to you.
One thing I should emphasize again: you don’t have to be an expert at all of these. You should be very. very good at at least one (maybe two or three, if you’re really determined), and then have passable ability at the others.
I’ve laid these skills out into discrete large sections, as some tend to be more related to each other.

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