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Debt will find you
This is a very important lesson from the finance world. Early in my career, I was under the impression that if I had a tighter deadline, I could just work for more hours in the weeks before the milestone and make it and then continue as normal after the deadline. When I was in my startup days we had this huge launch event where there would have been a lot of press for the unveiling of the product. All that sleep deprivation and stress took its toll. But if you look at the outcome it was worth it. Not all debt is bad and you should leverage it, but you need to be fully aware of the impact.
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You are solely responsible for your career
As a manager, I say that with the best intentions possible. One of the most important things is to not shy away from career conversations. In my first job, I was an engineer and I wanted to experiment with a leadership role in the future. After the discussion, my manager...
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You can't ride the wave forever
This is an oversight I have seen a lot of people making that ends up hurting their careers. You need to pay careful attention because everything has a due date. Every time your stakeholders, manager, job changes or enough time passes by, you need to prove your worth agai...
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Choose asymmetric opportunities
This really made a big difference early in my career. I remember when I needed to decide between staying with my jr. software engineering job at a big company or joining a risky hardware startup and becoming their first employee. A lot of my friends were surprised that I went for a risky startup,...
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Perception is reality
It took some time until I finally understood it. My teams were handling a critical project that was on a hard timeline. One day I had a chat with my manager about this and I asked for advice because I failed to understand where all of the sentiment was coming from. Advertisement At that point I u...
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Throughout his (Daniel Rizea) journey of rapid growth, I learned many valuable lessons. Some were taught by mentors, while others were found in books — but the majority of my knowledge came from learning from mistakes.
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Question the Story About How I See Myself
For years I allowed my body to be a liability. I was always a bigger girl and became a bigger woman.
- There was so much shame in it that I spent almost 30 years on a “diet”, a yo-yo between letting it all go and strict deprivation.
As I started to study myse...
My First Years Having BPD
They were chaotic, absolutely terrible. Like riding in a car that no one was driving and that I was barely driving myself.
I had terrible mood swings, a huge difficulty managing my emotions. Anger issues were awful. Resentment and so many negative emotions flooded me all the time, it was ...
It's not what you think 🤔
Interestingly I had a conversation with my husband the other day
He said that competition for EV (electric vehicles) is getting fiercer with more car brands trying to compete for market share.
But then I countered:
Maybe that's what Elon wants 🔥
His objective is to:
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