I know people in their thirties who have steady jobs and are absolutely miserable. They have the skill, they have the income, but they're stuck on a thing that they picked at 22 based on incomplete information about themselves. Is that success? The trouble with "find your passion" is that it presumes passion is something that you find instead of something you develop through competence. Most people aren't passionate about things that they're bad at, right? You become good at something first before you start caring about it. The causality is running backwards from the way we ordinarily explain it. It is undeniable that modern technological jobs come with lucrative compensation packages. However, this phenomenon is at the same time creating an entire cohort that is remarkably uniform in terms of their skill set. History shows that once the supply of such specialized talent exceeds market demand (as has happened many times, for example, in the legal and financial realms), a market correction occurs, often in a harsh and unforgiving way. The market corrects. Often brutally. You're saying people should make some new things and grab some new opportunities, which is reasonable. But opportunities aren't randomly distributed, they cluster around certain geographies, networks, socioeconomic backgrounds. Telling someone to "be ready" doesn't open the door to it.
I know people in their thirties who have steady jobs and are absolutely miserable. They have the skill, they have the income, but they're stuck on a thing that they picked at 22 based on incomplete information about themselves. Is that success? The trouble with "find your passion" is that it presumes passion is something that you find instead of something you develop through competence. Most people aren't passionate about things that they're bad at, right? You become good at something first before you start caring about it. The causality is running backwards from the way we ordinarily explain it. It is undeniable that modern technological jobs come with lucrative compensation packages. However, this phenomenon is at the same time creating an entire cohort that is remarkably uniform in terms of their skill set. History shows that once the supply of such specialized talent exceeds market demand (as has happened many times, for example, in the legal and financial realms), a market correction occurs, often in a harsh and unforgiving way. The market corrects. Often brutally. You're saying people should make some new things and grab some new opportunities, which is reasonable. But opportunities aren't randomly distributed, they cluster around certain geographies, networks, socioeconomic backgrounds. Telling someone to "be ready" doesn't open the door to it.

I know people in their thirties who have steady jobs and are absolutely miserable. They have the skill, they have the income, but they're stuck on a thing that they picked at 22 based on incomplete information about themselves. Is that success? The trouble with "find your passion" is that it presumes passion is something that you find instead of something you develop through competence. Most people aren't passionate about things that they're bad at, right? You become good at something first before you start caring about it. The causality is running backwards from the way we ordinarily explain it. It is undeniable that modern technological jobs come with lucrative compensation packages. However, this phenomenon is at the same time creating an entire cohort that is remarkably uniform in terms of their skill set. History shows that once the supply of such specialized talent exceeds market demand (as has happened many times, for example, in the legal and financial realms), a market correction occurs, often in a harsh and unforgiving way. The market corrects. Often brutally. You're saying people should make some new things and grab some new opportunities, which is reasonable. But opportunities aren't randomly distributed, they cluster around certain geographies, networks, socioeconomic backgrounds. Telling someone to "be ready" doesn't open the door to it.

I know people in their thirties who have steady jobs and are absolutely miserable. They have the skill, they have the income, but they're stuck on a thing that they picked at 22 based on incomplete information about themselves. Is that success? The trouble with "find your passion" is that it presumes passion is something that you find instead of something you develop through competence. Most people aren't passionate about things that they're bad at, right? You become good at something first before you start caring about it. The causality is running backwards from the way we ordinarily explain it. It is undeniable that modern technological jobs come with lucrative compensation packages. However, this phenomenon is at the same time creating an entire cohort that is remarkably uniform in terms of their skill set. History shows that once the supply of such specialized talent exceeds market demand (as has happened many times, for example, in the legal and financial realms), a market correction occurs, often in a harsh and unforgiving way. The market corrects. Often brutally. You're saying people should make some new things and grab some new opportunities, which is reasonable. But opportunities aren't randomly distributed, they cluster around certain geographies, networks, socioeconomic backgrounds. Telling someone to "be ready" doesn't open the door to it.