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Wanting to be engineer #5549383 at a big company is a fools errand if you want recognition and reknowned. It's like trying to get famous working as the guy who bolts the doors onto the frame at the Belvedere assembly plant.

The lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the mouse.

All of the people cited in the article (Gates, Musk, Jobs) eschewed "prestige institutions" and worked on what they wanted to work on.

They're incidentally famous because of their success in other areas.

The Kardashians are famous for being famous.

Which do you really want?

parent huffmsa 6 years ago

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