# Asymmetric career risk You can’t get fired for failing in the conventional way, especially early in your career. You can get fired or have you career hampered by failing in a weird way. On the flip-side, in most career situations you don’t capture a lot of the value of the wild success that can come from taking weird risks. This is one of the [[§Corporate R&D Constraints]]  ### Related * [[Shadows of the Future]] * [[We do not give enough credit to good philanthropic funders]] <!-- #mental-model --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Asymmetric+career+risk) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Asymmetric+career+risk)