# 83 Mark Herschberg - Author / MIT Professor / CTO / App Creator

Wish I Knew . . .

Career Background:

• Author of the book "The Career Toolkit"
• MIT Graduate and an engineer by background
• Chief Technology Officer at several companies
• Faculty at MIT
• Creator of the "brain Dump" App

https://brainbumpapp.com/

Highlights

• Mom "Why don't you teach the chess class"
• Book "The Career Toolkit"
  • 10 Topics / 10 chapters
• Learning the intangible skills to go along with the technical skills
• Giving content to MIT
• Helping people reach their potential
• Graduate degree in Cryptography
• Political volunteer for Clinton
• Never ever have software based voting
• Not knowing what to do, he "Hid" out at MIT as research staff
• How to think about looking for a job
• Look at the job not the title, dig deeper
• Looking at your career like a chess match
• Running towards is better than running away
• Look for material changes at your company
• Building your career plan
• Don't "Drift" with your career
• Field testing his book
• Be open to randomness and opportunities
• Focusing on the outcome
• Hates consulting
• Competitive dance career
• Discount all advice you are given
• Sabbatical 5 months prior to 30 years old

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