Wish I Knew . . .
A podcast where I speak with people about their career path. Focusing on their decisions, success, advice, key traits, career moves, mentoring and listening to interesting stories. This podcast is an interesting perspective on how careers can take a linear path to success, but all often career paths take a zig-zag path. Fun Stuff to learn about. Enjoy!
Wish I Knew . . .
# 83 Mark Herschberg - Author / MIT Professor / CTO / App Creator
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Season 2
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Episode 83
Career Background:
- Author of the book "The Career Toolkit"
- MIT Graduate and an engineer by background
- Chief Technology Officer at several companies
- Faculty at MIT
- Creator of the "brain Dump" App
Highlights
- Mom "Why don't you teach the chess class"
- Book "The Career Toolkit"
- 10 Topics / 10 chapters
- Learning the intangible skills to go along with the technical skills
- Giving content to MIT
- Helping people reach their potential
- Graduate degree in Cryptography
- Political volunteer for Clinton
- Never ever have software based voting
- Not knowing what to do, he "Hid" out at MIT as research staff
- How to think about looking for a job
- Look at the job not the title, dig deeper
- Looking at your career like a chess match
- Running towards is better than running away
- Look for material changes at your company
- Building your career plan
- Don't "Drift" with your career
- Field testing his book
- Be open to randomness and opportunities
- Focusing on the outcome
- Hates consulting
- Competitive dance career
- Discount all advice you are given
- Sabbatical 5 months prior to 30 years old
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