> The key trick is to focus on the lowest cost highest impact ones. For instance, getting a PhD is an insanely high cost marker, as is going all-in and getting a perfect GPA. Those aren’t bad things in themselves, but the signal value compared to the investment is much lower than other things. For some things on the other spectrum, things with high signal value compared to the investment, I would say having built an open source project (that people use), or some award, having written things that got published, having started your own company (even though it failed), or many other things.
This really stood out to me. I definitely will be reminding myself of this nugget the next time I think about 'going back to school to get a leg up in my career'.
