{"id":749,"date":"2009-06-01T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2009-06-01T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T10:04:40","slug":"hind-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2009\/06\/hind-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hind Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, I chanced upon another gem from OPENForum &#8211; an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.openforum.com\/2009\/05\/26\/how-to-make-your-place-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Tina Seelig<\/a> of Stanford, author of &#8220;<em>What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 In that interview, Seelig provides answers to questions that many of us would&#8217;ve wished we&#8217;d had in our younger days, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How should a college student decide what to study?<\/li>\n<li>What should you look for in your first job?<\/li>\n<li>What should you do in your first week on the job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all about academics.\u00a0 Seelig also addresses questions about career building, handling negotiations and about how one can balance work and life!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s just one example&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question:<\/strong> What\u2019s the best analogy that describes a career?<strong>Answer:<\/strong> I like the analogy that Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo!, used when she spoke at Stanford a few years ago. She said that you should look at the progress of your career as moving around and up a three dimensional pyramid as opposed to up a two dimensional ladder. Lateral moves along the side of the pyramid allow you to build a base of experience. It may not look as though you are moving up quickly, but you are gaining a foundation of skills, experience, and contacts that will prove extremely valuable later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The questions are pertinent, and the answers &#8211; priceless&#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.openforum.com\/2009\/05\/26\/how-to-make-your-place-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, I chanced upon another gem from OPENForum &#8211; an interview with Tina Seelig of Stanford, author of &#8220;What I Wish I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}