-: Network, network, network.
Preparation is lovely but introductions
and getting to the right place is the final answer.
I have been in four different careers in my life
and every single time, it was because I knew someone
not because I had any particular skillset.
When I took over AeroComputers, I did not have any knowledge
of CPUs, GPUs, nothing.
I knew nothing about computer science and yet,
now I'm running a company full of software engineers
and I know enough to be able to do my job.
Once you learn how to learn, you can do anything.
The knowledge is the least part of it.
The most important part is just networking,
knowing people, getting out,
getting involved in all kinds of activities.
You never know whether the person you stand next to in choir
is gonna be the one that leads you to your next job
and jobs seem to be much shorter-lived
in this society and in this time
and you don't know when your whole field
will become redundant or defunct.
So you've got to be ready to jump at any moment
and you've got to be able
to have a wide circle of acquaintances
that you can call and say, "Look, I'm about to lose my job.
"Do you know of any openings anywhere?"
The process is so much more important than the answer
especially in innovation
where I am in manufacturing or whatever.
There is no answer.
You can't look it up on Google and say,
hey, how do I solve this problem?
You have to struggle your way toward the answer
and so you have to be experiential and you have to
just assume that some things are not gonna work
and you have to continue working toward them so
I would say patience and innovation and flexibility,
that's the main.