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 ____” …
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 talk all the time about how you don’t know what you don’t know. It’s one of the most important things in life — the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. But the reverse is also true — you don’t know how much you know. And you won’t know, until there’s …
One of my most prevalent goals is to become smarter — always. When weighing opportunities, a job’s potential to make me smarter is more important than raw career growth (although the two often go hand-in-hand), monetary gains, or geographic location. It’s an important driver in my personal relationships, and in my choice of activities and …
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David Perell wrote a fantastic blog post on the importance (or lack thereof) in the accuracy of maps. Side note — if you don’t follow David Perell, you should. In a similar vein, I want to talk about the importance (or lack thereof) in the precision of one’s metaphors. This is not an argument against …
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