Applied Machine Learning is a Meritocracy

https://machinelearningmastery.com/applied-machine-learning-is-a-meritocracy/
via/comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19050482
Quite a few people arguing _against_ the competence/meritocracy view.
I feel that "it depends" on the _age_ and mindset of the company.
In a "startup", if you can do the work and you take initiative, nobody will _stop_ you.
Then you will build up the competence and more people will recognise your abilities/skills/experience.
From there you "just" need to build up a portfolio of online examples. e.g: https://jon.gold
and you're _unstoppable_!