Brian Sholis
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Brian Sholis
Status Signaling and
* “The 10 Club is a group of 10 people you want to work with later in life, and every member should be kind, ambitious, and generous.”
David Perell • The Fruits of Friendship - David Perell
- "Squashed evaluations: When an entire rich form of activity gets evaluated through one tiny window, then the importance of whatever’s in-frame gets over-exaggerated — and whatever’s outside of that frame gets swamped."
C. Thi Nguyen • Review Drift
- “… a clock is anything that undergoes irreversible changes: changes in which energy spreads out among more particles or into a broader area.”
Natalie Wolchover • The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks | Quanta Magazine
* “Additionally, consider how to make explicit the things that may naturally be implied in a conversation.”
Mandy Brown • All communication is lossy
"This counsel is surely weighted toward white-collar knowledge work, although I hope it’s at least somewhat valuable to any reader."
Derek Thompson • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
- "An expansive brand accepts a place in society as a type of public good, operating with a simple logic of forever expanding to nourish its every cultural touchpoint."
Hugh Francis • ✨ Expansive Brands • garden3d research
- “We undertake activities that we know to be difficult or unpleasant because we see them as part of a good life and wish to think back upon them in the future. We curate our presents to furnish our futures with the right kinds of pasts.”
The New Yorker • Being in Time
I’m rejecting the career ladder metaphor in favor of the career river. Here’s why:
1. The ultimate goal of the career ladder is: reach the top.
The ultimate goal of the career river is: reach your ocean - a thriving, wide-open ecosystem fed by other rivers to explore. /
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