Going Solo

As you let the possibility of merging your career and your passion live in your mind, I’ve tried to distill the patterns that I’ve observed into a series of questions:

Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?

How will you avoid insecurity work?

Can you learn to enjoy the process as the end in itself, no... See more

• How valuable is what I’m doing?


• What makes this hard for others to do?


• Could this get dramatically easier because of what others launch or how the industry evolves?


• If this does get easier, do I have a “Plan B” to create differentiated value?
  
  Note: An early version of this post appeared in my personal blog (still a work in progress). Decided to

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Some starting points for other people to learn from? Adjacent industries (education, film / tv, and publishing all have interesting lessons to teach), the OGs (retired / legendary ad people love to write books about the good old days and the first principles hold up nicely), and academics (imagine a ‘grown up’ version of our world, but with infinit... See more

In many societies, one’s professional fate is decided by the tribe, the family. However, one is increasingly thrown back into ‘How can I develop my own voice and niche from where I can operate’? Is there something like an individual signature? Perhaps not, but I do believe in skills, in small steps, working on various projects at the same time with... See more