If you're a Manager and you have an Android, the other Managers will laugh and you, or at least not take you seriously.

Q: Where'd you hear that crap?

A: A well-respected management consultant, who otherwise knew what he was doing.

I grew up on Linux using GNOME as my preferred desktop environment. I could grok KDE but I just didn't like it; it seemed heavyweight and clunky. This state of affairs continued for eight years, until I found myself switching to Mac OSX because I needed a UNIX that "Just Works" for my new life as a grad student. Since then I used Linux primarily as a server environment. Recently I've started exploring going back to Linux as my main desktop environment, as I've been really impressed with the quality assurance of the latest desktop releases. And after messing around for a while with Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc, I've come to discover that my favorite distribution for everyday desktop use ... is Mint KDE. Whodathunk?

1. Get the FCC to allow ISPs to make sweetheart deals with content providers, but subject to FCC supervision. (Done)
2. Starve the FCC of resources so that supervision becomes impossible. One way to do this: refuse to appoint FCC commissioners, so that they can't form a quorum --- just as happened to the FEC in 2008.
3. Profit! (Literally!)

Headline: "Comcast predicts storage cap"

Story in a nutshell: Comcast exec predicts bandwidth cap.

WTF?

...is how do you get a job and then succeed at it for longer than a year or so.

For that second part, my main recommendation is this: Don't be a bottleneck. As to how to carry out that part, there's plenty of good advice in the comments above, but your goal should be to solve problems quickly and produce solutions faster than expected whenever possible.