Life Advice
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Life Advice
- The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.- The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll... See more
Marc Andreessen • Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Opportunity
After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile
Gormtwitter.com
on the futility of advice
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
Sebastian Junger • Tribe — Sebastian Junger
Find a compass, not a map. A map might give you directions from A to B, but a compass will help you find true north wherever you are.
Simone Stolzoff • How to Find Clarity When You’re at a Career Crossroads
9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
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