Patrick McKenzie

And so like,

Until VaccinateCA, the most important thing I'd probably done professionally was writing a piece on the internet about salary negotiation.

I think it's subtitled, Make More Money, Be More Valued, which is just an exhortation for descriptively mostly young people who had some of the issues I had when I was young and growing up.

Like, hey, you're allowed to negotiate.

That's not a moral failing if you have no less right to the marginal dollar than a company has to the marginal dollar.

Like,

Go get it.

And then you can put it towards all sorts of interesting ends.

500,000 people a year read that piece, and it's now 12 plus years old.

I keep a folder in Gmail about who has written and said, I got $25,000 to $100,000 per year more as a result of reading this piece.

I used to keep a spreadsheet.

I stopped keeping the spreadsheet after it ticked into the eight figures.

I'm like, keeping the spreadsheet was just an ongoing source of stress for me.

Eight figures?

Yeah, per year.

You would assume that 500,000 people read it per year.

Some take the advice.

Most who take the advice probably don't write me to say, hey, I took the advice.

Thank you.

And maybe I missed some emails, yada, yada.