Everything can be learned, but not everything can be taught. You can’t be trained for specific knowledge once you have become irreplaceable and, as soon as one becomes irreplaceable, they are too busy to be even hired.

The mental model of specific knowledge dictates that intellectual property is leveraged by being 100% devoted to the cause of uniqueness, a.k.a becoming irreplaceable (so good they can’t ignore you). This essential and custom knowledge is at the bleeding edge of knowledge itself. It cannot be mass-produced, and it is driven by inner passion and curiosity. Oftentimes, this can be implemented following the soft skills that are extremely hard to acquire later in life. Neither age nor years of experience are relevant at this point. Once we take salaries out of the equation, free is overpriced, and once we remove the experience bias, age is meaningless for the recruiter. One can only be successful after failing so much.

We are all familiar with ICO mania and the Internet bubble. Since 2017 and the increasing number of Computer Science graduates, portfolios have become overweight on developers, but underweight on the main goal of learning how to code, which is problem solving. Can devs do something? Something great? The silent geniuses, those that nobody knows what they are doing with their 24-hour daily check.

One’s inner motivations are the drive of an obsession. On that note, infinite leverage is thrown at demonstrated wisdom: knowing the long term consequences of your decisions and knowing how to capitalize on that. At the same time, just like in poker, you don’t want the market to know how good you are. Being a no one in a sea of nobodys means that the person’s job consists of building a reputation without letting others know. But in the end, everyone knows that you know.

Inspiration is all that’s required for the bullish momentum. You scarcest resource is always time. Anything you can do to get more time is a green candle for a future breakout. When inspired and convinced of the upwards trend, those who aren’t in the market go all-in. Don’t expect perfection when the balance starts leaning on the high-chance side. Just remember that you don’t know what you don’t know while the market knows that you know.