Advice
Miscellaneous advice
Advice
Miscellaneous advice
"How often do you floss Joe?"
"Uh, not very often."
"That's ok" she said. "Just floss the teeth you want to keep."
Timeless advice:
You need to be good, not good for your age
Be wary of personal mission creep, both IRL and online
Prioritize finding friends and collaborators you'd like to have in your life for a long time
Avoid chasing the red herrings of success
Interesting life paths are generally non-repeatable
Keep your standards everything—but especially for your own conduct—high
Own your mistakes
Forgive your parents, and get to know them. Especially if you are the child of immigrants
Embrace commitment in work and personal matters
Mutual obligations are a gift—cherish them and run towards them
Take your work seriously, but yourself less so
Handy
It's all obvious in hindsight.
I had a very detailed career plan when I started my first job in oil and gas. In fact, the company encouraged us to make these plans. Then they'd make their own plans for you. It was probably only possibly because the rate of change there continues to reduce… at least with regards to the things that are important for career planning.
5 years later, I don't have a career plan. I feel liberated.
Profound. I'll have to return to this one.
It strikes me a higher-level decomposition of that Naval thread.
God, grant me the clarity to recognize when I need Advice,
The humility to seek Information when I lack understanding,
The courage to ask others to help me Do what I cannot alone,
The frankness to connect in hard times and good,
And the confidence to invite advocates to speak on my behalf.
May each request for aid be an offering of trust,
And each accept
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