# Building leverage in your career

DevFeed: [Building leverage in your career](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-leverage-in-your-career-39666.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gauravsarma.com/random/2025-03-18_building-leverage-in-your-career>)

Published: 2025-03-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Gaurav Sarma's Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gaurav-sarma-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [WebAssembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-assembly.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mozilla.md>), [coinbase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coinbase.md>)

Tags: [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [inside](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inside.md>), [leverage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leverage.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that career leverage can grow through sustained, focused contributions to valuable technical projects. Its main example follows a programmer who learns Rust and WebAssembly, contributes regularly to the WebAssembly source code, and receives increasingly senior opportunities from Mozilla and Google.

## Source excerpt

If you have read the Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, then you must have come across this famous quote It doesn't take money to make money, it takes leverage to make money. Retaining something after reading something is just as important and somehow, this quote along with few other quotes of his, has stuck with me...