u/tascotty wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
If you had to learn from scratch and specialise in one thing now what would it be? Or would you be a generalist?
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi, fun to think about, millions and millions of lines of code later, all I've seen, but I'm super sentimental and it's fun to think about going back to beginning.
In the USA tech job market, it's a meritocracy (overall, but it's not perfect haha), so whatever you do, you have to be better at it than most other people to succeed at that.
I REALLY wanted to do astrophysics but I'm not good enough at complex math so it's not the area for me. I REALLY wanted to do quantum computing because it sounded cool, but I'm not good enough at raw logic to work on fundamental quantum computing paradigm development.
I'm extremely good at focus and I'm really good at absorbing large systems and connecting the dots within them to get stuff done and turn the gears.
So in talking this out, I guess my advice here is to try to figure out what you are exceptional at early on by trying a lot of things and reflecting on them and looking for signs of things you just seem good at compared to others. When you find something go all in on that.
Sorry this isn't specific.