2019 in Review

In 2018, I recapped my year with a blog post full of memories. This year, I’m recapping my year with a more tangible exploration of growth: the things I accomplished, the ways I changed, the lessons I learned, my favorite memories, and the biggest things I’m carrying with me into 2020. The Things I Accomplished: …

The Best Books for Building a Startup Career

When I landed my first startup job, I felt like I knew nothing. Actually, some days I felt like I knew less than nothing. I was nineteen years old, and my previous working experience consisted of tutoring homeschooled kids and picking apples for a living. I had no idea what a quarter was, let alone …

How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable at Your Job

Here’s the bad news: you’ll always be replaceable. People at companies are replaced all the time. Sometimes they’re fired. Sometimes they take new opportunities and move on, and the company’s left scrambling to find someone to take their place. People who appear to be the backbone of a company schism and go elsewhere, and the …

Layered Stories: How to Add Richness to Your Writing

Humans are fascinated by complexity. Complexity creates richness. It’s a fine balance — too simple and we get bored, too complex and we become confused. But as a general rule of thumb, the more complex something is, the more interesting it is to us, and the longer it can hold our attention. Adding layers of …