How to figure out your next career move
- ID
- 17623
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 25 Aug 2026, 9:04 PM
- Fetched
- 25 Aug 2026, 9:39 PM
- Provider
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Category
- product-startup
- Original URL
- https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-figure-out-your-next-career
- Source URL
- https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/feed
Summary
- Score
- 3.5
- Created
- 25 Aug 2026, 9:40 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- saas_startup_foundersdevelopersai_ml_learners
What happened
Cliff Maxwell, collaborating with Jobs to Be Done co-creator Bobby Moesta, outlines a framework of six essential questions for navigating career transitions in tech, drawn from 1,000+ interviews and hundreds of coaching clients. The piece cites WEF projections that by 2030, 39% of current skills will change or become obsolete, 90M jobs displaced, and 170M new jobs created, arguing AI is redrawing role boundaries rather than just requiring new skills. Maxwell and Moesta have built Vocation, a career navigation platform applying a product/JTBD lens to career decisions.
Why it matters
The article is a paid newsletter teaser for a career-coaching framework and platform; the concrete six questions are not fully available in the excerpt. Builders should not change any technical or product decision based on this — the only actionable signal is the WEF stat set (39% skills churn, 90M displaced, 170M created by 2030), which is useful framing for anyone deciding whether to invest in AI-adjacent skills now versus staying in a role that may be redrawn. The Vocation platform itself is not yet something to adopt based on this text.
Discussion angle
Use the WEF 2030 numbers (39% skills churn, 90M displaced vs 170M created) as a concrete prompt: which specific roles in the Malaysian tech ecosystem — dev, PM, data, ops — are most likely to be redrawn vs displaced vs newly created, and what does that mean for what skills to bet on over the next 2-3 years?