Early Career Advice

Career advice for young people and/or people early on in their career

Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53

I like to think of careers as less like ladders and more like lily pads. In retrospect, some hops might look as if they were on a path, while others might look like a digression. Some might prioritize work, others might prioritize life outside of work. But whatever you hop to next, know you’ll have the chance to hop again. Little in life is

Simone Stolzoff • How to Find Clarity When You’re at a Career Crossroads

Stuart Evans

Everyone wants to decouple time from money. The problem? It's an extremely unpredictable way to make a living. For every successful creator, there are thousands who make nothing or almost nothing. So, how do you make the unpredictable, predictable? Here's what I learned:

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Partner with Zeit

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Ilana Ettinger

Make decisions easy for busy people. You will rise fast in your career if busy people like working with you. Here’s a tip: when you have a problem to solve, come prepared with a suggested next step. If you have a question, phrase it in a way they can answer yes/no. If there are multiple options, lay them out and ask them to pick one. Try to avoid

David Perell • 28 Pieces of Life Advice

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It’s important to have a strong learning signal — a fast feedback loop between effort expended and success. This way, you’ll know quickly what it takes to succeed, and whether you can be happy doing so. Look for environments where competitors see themselves as playing a game, rather than fighting for survival — this prevents rankings within the... See more

Brian Timar • Mimetic

Stuart Evans

Cultivate what Adam terms a “challenge network,” a cohort of people you can rely on to give you unvarnished feedback

If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions

The Man Who Does Everything - Adam Grant on The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes

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Cdixon | Climbing the Wrong Hill

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Juan Orbea

How to Be Lucky¶

You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short... See more

Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself

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