Picking the right profession can make or break your life equation. What profession will be best for you is determined by three things. Number one, your tribe Allah ‘Azzawajal has said in the Quran: “meaning we made you into branches and tribes so you may be introduced” and you don’t know, but as a kid when you were growing up, your tribe, your elders, your father, your uncles, your grandfather, your grand uncles were teaching you the way of your tribe, which includes your career.
The second thing is the city you live in. And the third thing is how you see yourself. What is the career you can imagine yourself doing for the rest of your life? To learn more, read Chapter 2 of the 40 Muslim Maxims. Stick with one profession.
So here is Elon Musk on how a battery actually charges itself for the really good example. The charge that tapers off as you get above 80% right now. Here is cars in a parking lot so that the lithium ions are trying to find a parking space as they as they move across from one side of the batteries to the other side.
As these ions are just bouncing around looking for a parking space where the parking lot is empty, its carmakers zip right in there and find a spot as easy as the battery gets it closer to full. It’s harder and harder to find a spot. They have to bounce around more. Doesn’t this make a gasoline car more efficient? 80 versus 100%.
And if people should get electric cars because they don’t have any emission, doesn’t the power plant making the electricity also produce emissions?
Everyone wants money. People get money by doing jobs. Everyone wants prestige. People get prestige by working at bigger companies. And money and prestige gets you relationships. And LinkedIn is like a magazine that advertises opportunities to get prestige and money. And let’s calculate how much revenue LinkedIn makes. Let’s say one out of a hundred finds a job using LinkedIn.
So 2 million into 200 LinkedIn makes about $400 million a year. So the recipe is monetize a core human desire for a big TAM or with a big network effect and make it easy for people to get the thing done.