Drake Equasion for Careers

Or, why the universe is probably full of brilliant people nobody has heard of Most people believe a successful career progresses linearly. You get the job, you land the promotion, you ship the thing, you make partner, you exit. One big bang, and then the light of your reputation travels outward forever. This is why so many talented people stare at the night sky of LinkedIn and feel that peculiar loneliness. The sky is full of stars. Some of them are clearly inhabited by people doing interesting things. And yet, from where you are sitting, there is only silence. No signal. No contact. Where is everybody? The mistake is not ambition. The mistake is thinking success is one number you either have or do not have, rather than a product of many smaller numbers, some of which were handed to you at birth and most of which you can nudge. In 1961, a radio astronomer wrote an agenda on a chalkboard and accidentally invented one of the most famous formulas in science. That got me thinking - can…

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