You Want Exciting Opportunities? Learn Math and Coding.

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Learning advanced math/coding opens career doors you don’t even know exist. Sometimes even doors that the whole world isn’t aware of yet.

Everyone knows that the future is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed. You know who it’s concentrated on? The people who are insanely skilled.

Likewise, everyone knows that the easiest way to become insanely skilled is to skill-stack. You know what skills pair really well with each other and basically everything else? Math and coding.

If you’ve got serious math chops, coding chops, and deep domain expertise in another discipline, you’re compounding 3 orders of magnitude. Be one-in-a-hundred on each and now you’re one in a million. Be one-in-a-thousand in each and now you’re one in a billion.

I don’t think I’ve ever run into someone with serious math/coding chops and deep domain expertise, who wasn’t working on something really exciting.

You take some area of interest, you go down the rabbit hole that’s been dug by previous explorers, you run up against the rocky technical problems that prevented further digging, you smash those rocks to bits with your math/coding jackhammer, and you just keep going and smashing the crap out of any more problems that dare get in your way.

What could possibly be more exciting than that?

Finally, keep in mind that in order to get yourself into the situation above, you have to actually be skilled. You can’t just “appreciate” or “talk a good game” about math/coding.

When you run up against a rocky technical problem, nobody cares how amused you are by the rock, and nobody cares how hype you get telling the rock how you plan to destroy it. The only thing that matters is that you can wield your math/coding tools masterfully enough to destroy the rocky technical problem.

Basically, you need to develop as strong a command over math/coding as a musician’s command over their instrument, or a gymnast’s command over their body. And that takes a massive amount of consistent practice over a long period of time. Which is hard, which is why most people don’t do it, which is why you get such an outsized competitive advantage if you do.

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