After months of planning I am now just 12 hours away from a totally new life. Tomorrow at noon I will board a plane and head over to Pittsburgh, PA where I will join a top-notch web startup (in stealth mode) at Carnegie Mellon University.
I will be working in a small team along insanely talented people like Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. As you might have guessed, I’m responsible for web design and frontend markup. It goes without saying, that I’m excited beyond words :)
Here’s to a last (probably sleepless) night in good old Germany.
See you on the other side!
This is a fundamentally different statement from, “I did well in school and therefore I will do a great job working for you.” The essential thing measured by school is whether or not you are good at school.
Being good at school is a fine skill if you intend to do school forever. For the rest of us, being good at school is a little like being good at Frisbee. It’s nice, but it’s not relevant unless your career involves homework assignments, looking through textbooks for answers that are already known to your supervisors, complying with instructions and then, in high-pressure settings, regurgitating those facts with limited processing on your part. Or in the latter case, if your job involves throwing 165 grams of round plastic as far as you can.
— Seth Godin in Linchpin
