I love the idea of skills surging, Pat. Reading your post made me look back and I realized I've been skills surfing myself with our realizing it. For me the path was along time lines of corporate finance -> VC investing -> business design -> coding -> product design -> product management (and now watch me make a full circle back to finan…
I love the idea of skills surging, Pat. Reading your post made me look back and I realized I've been skills surfing myself with our realizing it. For me the path was along time lines of corporate finance -> VC investing -> business design -> coding -> product design -> product management (and now watch me make a full circle back to finance 😆).
What I've noticed in my journey, and I spot the same in yours, is that there is usually a thread. It's not always visible but it's there. In my case, it's been around how to build successful businesses. In your case, it sounds like it's been around product building.
I think this is where the key to success lies in skill surfing. It's a good idea the skills to be adjacent, or at least existing in adjacent domains. For example, coding and product design are adjacent. In many ways they are even complimentary. Writing is adjacent to product design. In fact, many will argue writing is a form of design.
Thank you for writing this. Looking forward to the next one.
100% with you Vic. That's a great call out. While the jumps felt big at the time in retrospect I was clearly pulling on a common thread which led me to adjacent skills that complemented each other well. Because of that, there were always more transferrable skills from one to the next than I imagined.
Your path is fascinating! Sounds like building some kind of finance product might be in your future 🔮.
I love the idea of skills surging, Pat. Reading your post made me look back and I realized I've been skills surfing myself with our realizing it. For me the path was along time lines of corporate finance -> VC investing -> business design -> coding -> product design -> product management (and now watch me make a full circle back to finance 😆).
What I've noticed in my journey, and I spot the same in yours, is that there is usually a thread. It's not always visible but it's there. In my case, it's been around how to build successful businesses. In your case, it sounds like it's been around product building.
I think this is where the key to success lies in skill surfing. It's a good idea the skills to be adjacent, or at least existing in adjacent domains. For example, coding and product design are adjacent. In many ways they are even complimentary. Writing is adjacent to product design. In fact, many will argue writing is a form of design.
Thank you for writing this. Looking forward to the next one.
100% with you Vic. That's a great call out. While the jumps felt big at the time in retrospect I was clearly pulling on a common thread which led me to adjacent skills that complemented each other well. Because of that, there were always more transferrable skills from one to the next than I imagined.
Your path is fascinating! Sounds like building some kind of finance product might be in your future 🔮.