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 …
I was 20 years old when I took my first coaching session. On the outside I was smiling, relatively cool, relatively collected. I was acting the part of the coach. I was here to solve problems — I got this. On the inside I was terrified. I was plagued by questions — “Am I qualified …
As a writer, it’s easy to fall in love with the words. They have such beauty to them, after all. Such form. When you say them, they sound musical. When you write them down, they grace the page. It’s like magic; the results are like a drug. They make you giddy. Your writing is not …
I recently came across the following question: “How can you be successful without a college degree?” This is one of my favorite topics — and the answer is much simpler than we’re often led to think. You become successful without a college degree the same way you’d become successful with a college degree — by building skills, …
There are a variety of benefits to not going to college. College is an expenditure of a number of resources — time, energy, money, etc. If you aren’t using those on college, you can be spending them elsewhere — namely, on something that’s in more direct alignment with your goals. A few tangible, easy-to-measure benefits: …
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My colleague T.K. Coleman says “If you want to be a developer at Google, don’t go be a developer for another company. Build your development portfolio on the side and do anything you can to get in with Google, even if it means sweeping the floors.” There are two reasons why this is a valuable …
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