on working

We tell them that if they just find their passion, work will magically transform into endless joy, as if difficulty is just a symptom of being in the wrong job rather than an inevitable part of doing anything worthwhile. As if work were some unfortunate byproduct of insufficient enthusiasm rather than the very engine of human flourishing.

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{D} 104: Geek Beef

This is the 4U Framework from Design Sprint Academy, which helps you make choices by deciding which choices you don’t have to choose in the first place.

You can carve out a very good career simply by being the most reliable person on the team. You would not think that always showing up on time, hitting every deadline, and responding quickly and professionally to all communication would be such a differentiator, but these traits are always in short supply.

You have to be utterly ruthless about dodging meetings. When you do meetings, make them walking meetings. Do standing meetings. Keep them short, actionable and small.

Naval Ravikant • Be Too Busy to ‘Do Coffee’

Playfulness makes it easier to adapt the rules of the game to meet everyone’s needs in the situation. You might decide to invent a new rule, change a rule—or play a new game altogether.

Be Sincere—Not Serious

Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy

3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.

Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a

I’ve been there so many times, deep in the matrix of capitalism. Contorting my values and beliefs into a professional, ROI-shaped-object. It felt… not optional.

You have to do the work. To use a crypto analogy, you have to have proof of work. If you have that and you truly have something interesting, then you shouldn’t hesitate to put it together in an email and send it. Even then, when asking for a meeting, you want to be actionable.