1. Open as many doors as possible
   1. You can only be shown the door
   2. No one can walk through it for you
   3. More open doors more likely to pick one
   4. (although the risk of overwhelming is present)
2. Promote questions and not answers
   1. Most career models seeks to give answers
   2. A much more effective position is to give questions
   3. This gives self direction, while not giving no direction
   4. (there are those who might not move without specific direction)
3. Not obsessed with definitions
   1. Defining stuff can be useful
   2. Until it begins to close minds
   3. Common definitions decided together are REALLY useful
   4. (people can get mad when you don't define things)
4. Represent the core of a tester
   1. Where do skills grow from?
   2. I believe they grow from a core set of skills
   3. A core gives rise to interest in deeper learning
   4. (an expanding core may indicate generalism)
5. Was your career linear?
   1. Most career models show linear progression
   2. From role to role, increasing seniority
   3. But life rarely works like that, much more winding
   4. (although job titles are still important to some, as I found out)
6. More you learn, the less you know
   1. As you learn, you realise how little you know
   2. Hence, as a model, the outer reaches should grow exponentially
   3. Within each segment, the entry point is smaller than the outer reach
   4. (To be clear each segment could be a lifetime of learning)
7. Disciplines overlap more than they differ
   1. Should career models advocate a massive gap between roles
   2. Or can they look for ways roles overlap instead?
   3. Advocacy is a skill for all, after all
   4. (showing commonality might mean role migration)
8. For the buccaneers
   1. I learn sporadically and widely
   2. (I have read Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar)
   3. Never seen a career model which caters for that style
   4. Wide shallow learning can open the door for depth