The deeper I get in my career, the more I believe that professional happiness comes from identifying your values and then living by them. The more I let my values become the north star of my career, the happier I become. My personal values (in order of importance): freedom doing work I find meaningful integration …
I’ve been spending time this month reframing how I think about my projects. I kept catching myself shelving projects because they didn’t feel like The One. Good projects. Projects that I’d enjoy building and that I’d learn something from and that people would pay me to use. Because “I don’t want to be a ____” …
The ultimate guide to making your customers feel appreciated, making your product feel loved, and building a vibrant community. Are you as excited for this as I am? If the answer is yes, then I did my job — I got your attention and I got you pumped. In this case, I did it through sales (or …
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 …
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 …