8.1 · Career Strategy & Leverage
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
"Follow your passion" is bad advice; build rare and valuable career capital, then trade it for autonomy. The strategic foundation for the whole domain — and a direct argument against shallow-learning everything.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Free in full online. Leverage, specific knowledge, judgement, equity over salary. Short, dense, rereadable, and the cleanest bridge from career into wealth.
Deepen
Section titled “Deepen”The Staff Engineer’s Path
Technical influence without a title — my hierarchy’s exact phrase — if I take the senior-IC route before management.
Designing Your Life
Stanford design thinking applied to a career. Light on theory, strong on exercises. Also serves Domain 1.6.
Cross-listed here
Section titled “Cross-listed here”Read once, counts twice. The full entry lives in another cluster.
Range
Full entry in cluster 4.5.