๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ In 2011, I was hired into my first junior role in tech @Groupon

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿ’ป By 2020, I was headhunted into a VP role in a global tech company @Brandwatch

๐Ÿค– I achieved this progression in less than a decade, without ANY coding skills

๐Ÿ”ฎ How did I do it?

*a thread*

๐Ÿค“ I established a track record of results.

๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿพ No magic formula can replace hard work: do your job well & hit all the targets you are set.

๐Ÿ˜ฌ When you're struggling, ask for help so you can stay on track to get results, or collaboratively adjust targets.
๐ŸŽจ I stayed creative.

๐Ÿง™๐Ÿฟโ€โ™€๏ธ When challenges arose I was bold enough to try new solutions. Not everything worked, but constantly trying produced valuable innovations.

๐Ÿง  I was proactive in finding new, better ways to get the job done.
๐Ÿคฉ I was a self-promoter. I recorded my achievements & ensured they were mentioned in any performance / compensation reviews.

๐Ÿ˜Ž I put myself forward for any opportunities to gain recognition e.g. speaking opportunities or awards.

๐Ÿ‘€I actively worked on gaining visibility.
๐Ÿ™‚ I was myself. Some say you need to be ruthless to succeed. I don't buy it. I'm a nice person so I'm nice at work, too.

โค๏ธ I didn't fake it. I always acted on my values, and spoke up when something didn't feel right. I showed integrity.

๐Ÿค— I was a team player. To everyone.
๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿพ I toughened up & thickened my skin. Mostly to absorb constructive feedback better.

๐Ÿ—ฃ I learned how to ask for feedback that showed me my blind spots & flaws so I could work more effectively.

๐Ÿ‘‚๐Ÿฝ I learned how to listen without defending myself, and simply absorb & learn.
๐Ÿš€ I took risks. When a career opportunity arose that better served my purpose: I jumped at it.

๐Ÿ‚ I embraced change AND I embraced failure.

๐Ÿ˜’ Things don't always go to plan, I accept that, I expect that.

๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿพ Every step in the journey made me wiser & more resilient.
๐Ÿค  I followed my gut & learned to filter out naysayers & those who didn't get me.

โœŠ๐Ÿพ @hustlecrewlive wouldn't exist if I listened to super smart, experienced tech pros who told me it wouldn't work. We're on track for 7 fig ARR. And it's my side hustle.

๐Ÿค“ I did things MY WAY.
๐Ÿค— I built a support network who understood my ambitions & eccentricities.

๐ŸŒˆI embraced my differences & uniqueness & leaned *heavily* into these.

โค๏ธ I surrounded myself with people who bigged up these parts of me.

๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ In doing so, I built my self-belief & self-confidence.
๐Ÿ“š I never stopped learning & challenging myself.

๐Ÿง I surrounded myself with people smarter, more ambitious & driven than me.

๐Ÿคฏ I expanded my knowledge thru podcasts, articles, videos, books.

๐Ÿง  I built a network of mentors I've never met but whose content I've absorbed.
๐Ÿ“ˆ An economist by training, I accepted the sacrifices required to succeed.

๐Ÿ˜• I accepted missing out on fun stuff when in-between jobs or starting @hustlecrewlive.

๐Ÿ› I accepted times I could only afford essentials.

๐Ÿ˜ฅ I accepted declining mental & physical health, too.
โœ๏ธ Finally, I mastered the art of story-telling.

๐Ÿ—บ I never had a plan for my career progression, although I always so desperately wanted one.

๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ I just keep putting one foot forward, then at specific milestones, craft a compelling narrative looking backwards.

๐Ÿ’ซ Good luck.

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So we had to develop technologies like this to barely manage control over limited areas in Iraq's few urban centers. Only ~8 in 100 Iraqi adults owns a personal vehicle. That rate is > 1 car/adult in America yet I have never seen any doctrine paper or work of fiction address this


We've seen and struggled in civil conflicts with instant, local, universal, distributed communications (cell phone era, basically every conflict since 2000). We've seen and struggled in conflicts with instant, global, universal distributed communications (everything since 2011).

The world's most overfunded military and glow in the dark agencies struggle and largely fail to contain conflicts where fhe vast, vast majority of people are locked into a ~5mi radius of their home.

How can they possibly contain a conflict in a nation with universal car ownership and the most developed road network in the world? The average car can travel over 400 miles on one tank of gas, how can you contain the potential of that kind of mobility?

I think that's partially why the system was so freaked out by 1/6. Yes, most of it is histrionics but you don't decide to indefinitely turn your capital into the Baghdad Green Zone with fortifications and 25k troops over histrionics alone.

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