Dave Plummer

And I didn't know how injecting a correction meaninglessly into a conversation could impact and make the other person feel.

Now I got a better sense of it.

In terms of prosperity and finances, the biggest thing I can say is sell what you can do and not yourself.

Because if you go into a job interview and you try to wow them with your personality and how amazing you are, it may or may not go well.

But if you can go in with your portfolio of work and say, look, here's my GitHub history, and here are the awesome projects I contributed to, and here's the actual algorithm I wrote, and this is what I do.

I think you get a lot further with that.

So whether you're playing the piano or writing code.

It does.

And that was a liability for me.

I think the biggest deficit for me was when I started to manage people.

Because now you're...

concerned about their hopes, dreams, aspirations, what motivates them.

They have entire lives that are kind of a mystery to me because I assume they want to be motivated and led and encouraged and compensated exactly as I would.

And that's not always the case.

Some people need a lot more affirmation.

Some people just want money.

Some people want to be in the important meetings and make decisions.

But I was largely oblivious to that.

And so eventually I had to learn that everybody that you're managing has their own set of incentives and priorities, and they're completely different from what I think they probably are.

And that's something I started doing is overtly asking because it's hard for me to nudge somebody there.