This piece originally appeared at Hyperdimensional.
Many people ask me to meet with them for career advice. I try to take as many of these meetings as I can. Unfortunately, the constraints on my time have grown in the last year, and they show no signs of abating. Even more importantly, I worry that my career is not a template worth following. The way I got into AI policy was simple: I started writing about it, and I sent that writing to many people until one of them hired me. That’s about it.
You should work hard, be reliable, and be personable. But everyone knows this.
What I suspect will be more useful is an explanation of how I develop differentiated points of view on the topics I write about—in other words, my process. That is the topic to which this post is devoted. I apologize for the solipsism, but this is a question I get often.
