Best do it at a bit of a run if you're nervous
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Argues that deliberately running into walls — starting before perfect readiness — is a repeatable strategy to overcome career and skill barriers: three concrete examples (dropping out of a disrupted Masters into consulting, choosing one of two career paths, and convincing engineers to give lightning talks) and practical steps: stop overthinking, take a brick out of the wall by chipping away at tasks, learn Kubernetes in spare time, iterate on choices because many failures are reversible, and small repeated attempts produce breakthroughs.
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