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Published · transcript-backedBrian Potter: recommendation
27 Oct 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review
“Focus on software and then work at one of the many more new startups that are now tackling the construction space. They're increasingly in need of software developers and that would probably be a lower-risk way to do it because you don't need to necessarily go to a fancy school to become a software developer.”
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- Brian Potter
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- recommendation
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- 27 Oct 2022
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Yeah. Another way would just be to try to come in from a more oblique angle. Focus on software and then work at one of the many more new startups that are now tackling the construction space. They're increasingly in need of software developers and that would probably be a lower-risk way to do it because you don't need to necessarily go to a fancy school to become a software developer. Then if it doesn't work out, just go get a job at a FAANG company and make $600,000 a year. Look and see how the startups in the space are changing and growing. I think by the time some folks got out, the building space might look pretty different in technology, and software stuff is kind of slowly forcing its way in there a lot more. But if they want to transition from just being an engineer to working on the forefront stuff that you write and talk about, is working at a startup the ideal way to do that?…
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