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# 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.

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## 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