Early Career Advice

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

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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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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The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

Randy Komisar • 6 highlights

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Learning to be managed · Jose Antunes

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Jilber Najem

Face It: You're a Crazy Person

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Stuart Evans

Career Advice

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Jordan Bester

Career with swyx // Metamuse podcast episode 53

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Susie Conley

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

Early career years are painful. You feel like an idiot 98% of the time - lost, confused and insecure. I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first job. So I put one together. Here are 20 things about building a career I... See more

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