The Cost of Failure in Career Building

If you view career building as a kind of variance reduction loss avoidance exercise, it doesn't make sense to be creative. It makes sense effectively to pursue very well argued, but fundamentally unsurprising and unremarkable courses of action. You talk about your own hiring in the book where the fact that you were hired and cohort of four as opposed to an individual meant, well, let's take a punch on the weirdo.