It is also important to intelligently select where your vertical leg is placed.

Scirra_Tom · on July 25, 2016

I feel that to be "among the best in their field within a narrow discipline" (the vertical leg) means you have a natural disposition and interest in that discipline. Not something you can just choose (that would be more about the horizontal).

officemonkey · on July 25, 2016

Then the "where are you willing to work?" becomes an important factor. There aren't a lot of "high-precision mass spectrometry" work in a lot of towns.

pc86 · on July 25, 2016

Am I the only one that finds it hard to believe all of Valve's ~330 employees are among the best in their respective field?