GROWING A CAREERErnest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.

Technology Evangelist

ABOUT ME @DrErnie

• Immigrant

• Physicist

• S.B., 1988 MIT

• Ph.D., 1995 Caltech (BEIJING IHEP)

• Storyteller

• Boston Consulting Group

• Apple Marketing since 1997

THE SILICON VALLEY REALITY• Careers are Grown, Not Planned

• Everything Changes

• Except:

• The Nature of Change

• Human Nature

GROWTH FUNCTIONS

Step Linear Exponential

THE GROWTH MODEL

EVERYTHING DIES

TO LIVE FOREVER

EMBRACE DEATH

LIFE-LONG CAREER S.H.A.D.E

1. SELF

2. HAPPINESS

3. ART

4. DESIGN

5. ENTREPRENEURSHIP

1. SELF

• HEART (DECISION)

• SOUL (EMOTION)

• MIND (REASONS)

• STRENGTH (ACTION)

2. HAPPINESS• ALIGNMENT

• SELF

• OTHERS

• THINGS

• REALITY

• MANY TERMS

• WEST: HAPPINESS

• EAST: DUTY

• PHILOSOPHY: FLOURISHING

• THEOLOGY: GLORY

3. ART

• PURSUE BEAUTY FOR ITS OWN SAKE

• PASSION

• JOY

• YOU → WORLD

4. DESIGN• ENABLE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

• DISCIPLINE

• ITERATION

• TRADEOFFS

• YOU ↔ WORLD

5. ENTREPRENEURSHIP• SUSTAIN HAPPINESS

• CREATE VALUE: MAKE

• DEMONSTRATE VALUE: MARKET

• CAPTURE VALUE: MONETIZE

• YOU ← WORLD

CONTACT• TWITTER

• @DRERNIE

• @STOOSIAN

• WEB

• DRERNIE.COM

• RADICALCENTRISM.ORG

• 2TRANSFORM.US

• IHACK.US

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