Career & Ambition
Jeremy Nixon's compiled knowledge on career strategy, startup ideas, reputation building, ambition, and the pursuit of greatness. Synthesized from 30+ raw entries.
Career Strategy
- silicon-valley-job-skilling-amp-acquisition-guide -- Comprehensive guide to getting a Silicon Valley job
- 07-02-14-careers-backward-induction -- Planning careers backwards from the goal
- 17-07-25-reputation-building -- Systematic reputation building
- 17-07-28-how-to-be-like-me -- Jeremy's self-model for replication
- 18-01-13-strengths, 18-10-29-strengths -- Personal strengths audit
The Pursuit of Greatness
- forces-motivating-greatness -- What actually drives people to greatness
- canonical-success -- Models of canonical success
- thinkers-who-went-deeper -- People who achieved exceptional intellectual depth
- heroes -- Jeremy's heroes
- to-those-who-undermine-heroes -- Defense of hero worship
- miming-great-scientists -- Emulating the methods of great scientists
- demis-hassabis-resources-aggregate -- Studying Demis Hassabis
- mind-of-demis-hassabis -- Understanding how Hassabis thinks
- peter-thiel-on-progress-and-stagnation -- Thiel's contrarian views on progress
Startup Ideas
Machine Learning Startups
- 17-02-05-machine-learning-startup-ideas -- ML-specific startup ideas
- 17-08-31-machine-learning-projects -- ML projects worth building
- 15-08-05-data-science-projects-i-would-love -- Data science project ideas
Other Startups
- 17-03-23-unusual-startup-ideas -- Unconventional startup ideas
- 18-10-15-funding-transcendent-enlightenment-startup-ideas -- Consciousness/enlightenment startups
- 07-01-14-website-ideas -- Web product ideas
- 17-09-21-life-amp-productivity-coach-ideas -- Coaching business ideas
Wealth & Impact
- 18-01-02-ways-to-become-a-billionaire -- Paths to extreme wealth
- 17-07-26-things-to-do-once-a-billionaire -- What to do with extreme wealth
- 17-11-04-what-to-do-with-a-billion-dollars -- Philanthropic and ambitious uses of wealth
- 18-09-05-sources-of-value -- Where value comes from
Risk & Independence
- 17-08-04-what-i-would-do-if-i-didnt-care-about-reputation -- Removing reputation constraints on action
- optimize-for-volatility -- Embracing variance
- antifragile -- Nassim Taleb's framework for benefiting from disorder
- evaluating-rare-interventions -- How to evaluate high-risk, high-reward bets
Communities & Networks
- communities-to-create -- Communities worth building
- 17-08-20-communities-to-create -- More community ideas
- high-value-communities -- The most valuable communities to join
- 18-09-19-high-value-communities -- Updated community assessment
- 19-07-14-valuable-unexplored-communities -- Underexplored community spaces
- 20-02-21-transhumanist-adjacent-communities -- Communities near transhumanism
- 18-09-22-efficient-social-search -- Finding the right people efficiently
Technology Trends & Bets
- tech-trends -- Where technology is heading
- industrial-revolution-tech -- Technologies of comparable importance to industrial revolution
- 18-09-22-anti-trends-technologies-that-need-to-be-trending-but-arent -- Contrarian tech bets
- future-of-machine-intelligence -- Where AI is going
Decision Making for Career
See wiki/thinking-frameworks for general decision-making material. Career-specific:
- compressing-decision-making -- Compressed decision-making framework
- winning-decisions -- Russo & Schoemaker's framework
- meta-decisions -- Decisions about how to make decisions
- principles-of-decision-making -- Core principles
- decisive -- Heath & Heath's framework
- decision-making-literature -- Full literature survey
- 17-11-06-options-given-a-break -- Options analysis during a break