Early Career Advice

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

Kassen Qian and

Mimetic

Brian Timar briantimar.com

Stuart Evans

Nobody Knows What They’re Doing

Makinde Adeagbo blog.devcolor.org

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Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

Brian Sholis

Infopunk #6 – What real learning looks like

Juan Orbea juanorbea.substack.com

JJuan Orbea

Cool 2 minute movie about real learning. Skaters involved.

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

youtube.com

sari

Perhaps the best career advice I’ve heard is to lower the stakes. When we loosen our grip on the “right” path to pursue, we open ourselves to what the universe has to offer.

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

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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Never Search Alone

phyl.org

MargaretC

Obama's career advice for young people -- Just learn how to get stuff done. What I mean by that is I've seen at every level people who are very good at describing problems, people who are very sophisticated at explaining why something went wrong or why something can't get fixed. But, what I’m always looking for is,... See more

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