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Reconsidering Career Optionality
Skin-in-the-game, bigger-than-self purpose I think is an open secret life hack (up there with jhanas and finding a baseline happy life partner).
It’s so good that I felt cheated when I (finally) became a founder. I thought “why did everyone tell me this is hard instead of telling me this is a life... See more
Stephen Zerfasx.comBut maybe this makes it easier—knowing that you will be nauseated and lost when you try to do anything in life other than stay on an understandable, legible, unobjectionable trajectory. Sometimes this is called safety. But it’s really not safe. It’s just steady-state. People with safe jobs get cancer and get fired all the time. Often, taking the... See more
Sasha Chapin • The Moat of Low Status
Young people today are trained to pursue optionality as an end in itself, which leads to a fear of commitment and a generation of wandering souls.
I can't recommend this essay enough.
https://t.co/nr5RxfAYYg https://t.co/W4gwrS6r9e