Getting the work you love

This week, multiple people told me, "you have the best job." I agree, sort of.

In my career, I can only truly say that I was doing what I loved in two periods. The first was being Google's first iOS app developer, back in 2008. The second is now, building and leading a prototyping team specializing in LLM and ML.

Both projects where things that I was secretly doing before, but I had known that those were the things I wanted to do. I'd spend off-time working on it, sometimes sneaking these into my work. Both things I had been doing without knowing what would happen.

That's pretty much it. Figure out what are love, get good at doing it, form an opinion on how to do it as good as you can, as fast as you can and if you're lucky, it'll become a thing people want.

There are many things I've tried doing on the side that have lead to nowhere, but consistently, the things that break out for me are the ones that I believed I would do even if I wasn't getting paid to do.