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You're never "in too deep" with a job.

So many of you are not jumping to your happiness because you think you're in too deep...
"Oh, I've worked at that company for 10 years! I can't leave now... I'd be giving up everything that I've put in."

What are you talking about? You're miserable!

The reality is, if you're "in too deep" with something that's wrong, you need to get the f*ck out. What are you going to do? Double down on something that you know is f*cked up? You know you hate your job ... and because you done it wrong for 7, 10 years, you're now deciding that you're going to do it forever??

My friends, what are we talking about? Cut your losses and move on.

My mom never made me feel bad about not being good at school.

I never felt like I sucked for not being a good student. But I did get grounded every time my report card came out. My mom made it clear that there was a price to be paid for not delivering good grades. And if I didn’t deliver, I had to pay that price.

It was encouragement balanced with practicality. It’s important to create “friction” between the two to put kids in a good position to win.

Google has dropped a new guide for "Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search", here is what they said you DON'T NEED:

- llms.txt or AI markdown
- to "chunk" content
- rewrite content for AI systems
- overfocus on structured data

Who would have thought? 🙃

Link in comments to the full guide. Thanks again to Chris Green for the heads up.

Today marks 78 years since the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes.

Ireland will always stand with Palestine.
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~ Orfhlaith Begley MP ~
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Being an IC is becoming the new career flex. I call it Hi-C (High-impact IC). And I’m so here for it (and testing it myself).

The traditional career path has always been kind of dumb: Get really good at your craft so you can earn a promotion into... no longer doing your craft.

Instead, you become a professional meeting attender, a full-time cross-functional coordinator, all while routing info up and down the chain.

But now AI gives you the abilities of an average marketer, designer, PM, engineer, analyst, etc. Combined with actual domain expertise, one person can now do work that used to require entire teams. Increasing your impact no longer means you need a team to get things done.

I became an IC at Lovable few months back and I love it. I think I was always a mediocre manager anyway. (Side note - it does mess with your head a bit because we’ve all been brainwashed into thinking it’s a demotion)

But in today’s environment, it’s a career upgrade.

You get to spend your time doing what you’re actually good at. And what you love.

Plus I really don’t think “middle management + cross-functional coordination” is the most desirable and defensible career skill set going forward anyway.

Let's get back to building!

Wrote more about this here: https://lnkd.in/e9BPZYYr

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Me: "Maybe if I keep making fun of vague homepages, software companies will stop making them."
Software companies:

If you’re not willing to invest in yourself, why should anyone else invest in you? Put skin in the game.

In sales, the more senior you are, the easier it is to hit quota.
Account Executives: 41.9% hit quota.
First Line Manager: 51%
Director of Sales: 63%
VP of Sales: 66%

Every rung up the ladder, the odds improve. By the time you're a VP, you're nearly twice as likely to hit your number as the AEs on your team.

There are real reasons for this. Senior leaders have more influence over how quotas get set. They control territory design, headcount, and forecast methodology.

And of course the buffer play that orgs deploy (add the direct reports quota up and give it a haircut of 10 to 20%, etc etc).

But if you're an AE wondering why it always feels hard, the data has an answer: attainment gets easier the further from the quota-carrying frontline you get.

The best sales orgs are starting to ask whether that's by design and whether it should be.

New management data dropped this week (salaries for various management levels, plus check salaries for roles at 15,000 companies): https://lnkd.in/eGzQtVyH

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