you are in the position between jobs where you can take a year off
i highly recommend that i think it was like one of the two or three best career things that i ever did i sold my startup when i was like twenty six something like that and then i took a year off
and in that year it's really hard to do in silicon valley because
like in a place where social status is determined by your job while you're working on
like when you shop at a party
and someone says oh what are you working on and you're like i'm kinda just taking the year off like
you can sort of see in real-time their eyes like look for someone else in the room to talk to it doesn't feel that good
um
but in that year i i read like many dozens of textbooks um i learned about fields that i had been interested in
i didn't have any idea that they were going to come together in the way they did but like i learned a lot about nuclear engineering
ai was starting to work so i learned a lot about ai and synthetic biology
um i learned about investing i started doing all this random stuff almost all of it didn't work out
but
the seeds were planted for things that worked in deep ways later
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