I would love to hear more about shifting the "offering commodity skills" to "I produce measurable business value" mindset. From Patrick or other HN'ers.

My career path has always been very conservative, e.g. "What skills do I need to be employed by corporations at salary X?" Even today, I struggle with a strong and compelling internal voice that says "oh, learn blub and enterprise platform ZZZZ" and then you will be seen as more valuable.

I know this is a extremely limiting mindset, but breaking free to a new viewpoint has proven difficult.