Chris Dixon: "The mistake I see a lot of young people making early in their career. The next prize, promotion, bonus, is six months away. And they're on that treadmill, never willing to join a startup and take what appears to be a step backward, but is, in reality, a bigger hill."

Say you’re a car manufacturer. Every year, you must decide between investing in future innovations, such as self-driving software, and finding ways to squeeze new revenue out of existing technologies and materials. Too much fanciful R&D spending, and this year’s profit plummets. Too much emphasis on tweaking existing product lines, and you get ... See more

Courage is not irrelevant to creating work you love. Lulu and Lewis, as we now understand, required quite a bit of courage to ignore the resistance generated by this trap. The key, it seems, is to know when the time is right to become courageous in your career decisions. Get this timing right, and a fantastic working life awaits you, but get it wro

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