Own your career like a product - nobody else will

You need to take responsibility for your career and where you want to go. And this is on you. And so the reality is you can let somebody else do it and you can try to morph yourself to fit other people. But I will tell you, you will be way better off if you spend the time to figure out who you are and find a job that matches who you are.

At some point, understand that you are responsible for your career, not your workplace.

Some of the best PMs I have ever worked with are terrible PMs for their career. They just drift from job to job. But if I said you had to write a spec for your career, what does success look like? How are you going to get there?

The moment you stop making progress in your career is the moment you start looking for another job.

What your manager should do and $4 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. The point of this loop is it's in your control.

Know what you want out of your career, be clear and ask for it, and then make it easy for your boss or whoever can support or champion you to get you from here to there.

In your career, it's just a lot like building a product. You have theories and hypotheses, you find ways to experiment with them, and then you were successful or you failed.

My goal professional is actually to have options so I can choose what I want to do. So I can choose what fits my life right now that I can choose what fits my skills and that fits my personality and that makes me happy.

My goal professional is actually to have options so I can choose what I want to do. You start thinking about what can I do next year that will increase my option pool?

Employees hire companies more than companies hire employees.

Full-time jobs are not the best way to monetize the skill that you have. It's one of the packages that everybody should evaluate and take advantage of, but too many people blindly default to that package.

Full-time jobs are not the best way to monetize the skill that you have. Too many people blindly default to that package and don't explore other options.