Career Debt, Learning and Earning

I very much agree, even down to the ordering of the final points in the article.

My last resignation letter could have been vastly shortened by simply linking to this.

The risk-averse nature of large organizations can rub off on people who haven't experienced places that are small, agile, and streamlined. People who fall deep on that end of the spectrum have a strong sense of learned helplessness that, if they started out very talented, with hurt their long term career prospects. Given this article's framing of the problem, the learned helplessness mentality is a significant factor in the career debt trap.