Status Updates From Così bravo che non potranno...

"To summarize, if your goal is to love what you do, our first step is to acquire career capital [rare and valuable skills and knowledge]. Your next step is to invest this capital in the traits that define great work. Control is one of the most important targets you can choose for this investment." - p. 114

- seeking immediate and regular feedback on your work essential to rapid progress
that is a lesson i def wish i had learned earlier! many such gems in here

He's so far made a very good case that "follow your passion" is usually bad career advice.

I'm enjoying this. It is both relevant to my own career development and to the subject matter I talk to students about.

Even after you have the capital required to acquire real control, things remain difficult, as it’s exactly at this point that people begin to recognize your value and start pushing back to keep you entrenched in a less autonomous path.