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by sokoloff 1046 days ago
I think that a combination or intersection of skills is often more valuable than a slightly deeper individual skill.

I was a “pretty good” programmer (I’ll estimate as top 10%), but am also a fairly good writer (I’ll estimate top 20% there). That combination has been quite valuable to companies I’ve worked at and for my family.

Find the intersection of valuable things where you excel or could excel.

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Wholeheartedly agree.

One underlining here is it's easy to fake experience in an individual domain ("yeah, I know python. I read like 2 books.") but you can't fake experience in multiple, pointed domains ("yeah, I used python to manage a fleet of clown cars for the Hertz-Barnum merger").