Don’t limit your notion of things you hate to work. You probably have habits and relationships and other things you hate. Quit those too. There are a million reasons to laugh at the advice. I doubt any of them will improve your life after the short-lived

This is not to say you need to do work you love. It all depends on what work means to you and what your other values are. Doing work you love and being happy are not necessarily the same thing. It does mean you need a great deal of self-knowledge and self-honesty

Quit as soon as possible. Exit. Keep exiting until you’re not doing stuff you hate.

When the time is right and the idea is ripe you’ll know.

Real solutions create value. Non-profits can create value, but it’s much, much harder to know if they can and far too easy for them to do the opposite. If the solution is political it’s almost assuredly going to do more harm than good. If the goal is good feels, launch a nonprofit effort or lobby politicians. If the goal is effectiveness, try as ha

The most profound improvements in the world are typically born out of many years of following the initial identification of a problem deep down the rabbit hole. Those who see something they don’t like and jump to do something come and go, as do the effects of their efforts. Those who internalize the problem – let it steep, let it alter the way they

When you create you’ve got to pick what’s most important and leave aside many other valuable things. It’s vulnerable. What if people blame you for leaving them out? They will. But if you attempt to include everything you’ll never create anything.

Our culture is one that provides social rewards for any kind of action. If you say you’re doing something to alleviate poverty, people congratulate you no matter how stupid or useless or even counter-productive your efforts might be. Volunteering is deemed noble and effective, whether or not it’s either of these things. Obsession with nonprofits an

Once you honestly know the one-word answer to “Do I want this?”, commit. Resolve to do it. Take some action that holds you accountable to your commitment. (Tell someone in private, make it public, etc.) The rest will follow.