3 High-Leverage Career Skills (From a Principal At Amazon)

A Life Engineered September 26, 2022
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Leverage is gaining an outsized benefit from a relatively small input. Programmers instinctively understand this concept with coding tasks but often fail to prioritize high-leverage activities to their lives and careers. NEWSLETTER - Sign up to my free newsletter: https://alifeengineered.substack.com/ PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/ALifeEngineered My content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you supported me on Patreon. BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE So Good They Can't Ignore You - https://geni.us/SoGood This book transformed m y life when I read it for the first time nearly 10 years ago. It's still guides the way I think about self-development today. Deep Work - https://geni.us/ALE-DeepWork The most important currency you have is your undivided attention. This book shows you exactly how to spend this currency in a manner that will lead to head-turning accomplishment. SYSTEM DESIGN Designing Data-Intensive Applications https://geni.us/DataIntensive Currently the best reference for contemporary for system design. System Design Interview (Volume 2) https://geni.us/SystemDesignIntervie and https://geni.us/SystemDesignInterview - For interviews, the best references are System Design Interview and System Design Interview Volume 2 by Alex Xu. I get a kick-back for the affiliate links above. The opinions expressed in this video are my own. I do not speak for Amazon. 00:00 Introduction 01:52 High-Level Career Skill 1 05:44 High-Level Career Skill 2 10:07 High-Level Career Skill 3 12:47 Conclusion

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