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a place for concept composers and concept librarians
How we career
Switching lanes to build a new career is daunting. The options an individual has are often costly or hard to find. They can:
Switching lanes to build a new career is daunting. The options an individual has are often costly or hard to find. They can:
- go back to school to “continue their education” (as if it had been halted!)
- find an organization that will pay them to learn and explore a new role
- start their own organization that provides a home for a nascent
Welcome to the Careering Fairgrounds
To create an Archipelago of Ideas, you divergently gather a group of ideas, sources, or points that will form the backbone of your essay, presentation, or deliverable. Once you have a critical mass of ideas to work with, you switch decisively into convergence mode and link them together in an order that makes sense.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
I still feel the familiar flutter of anxiety every time I'm about to publish something. I still wonder if I'm qualified, if I'm smart enough, if anyone will care. But I'm learning to see those feelings not as stop signs but as information—signals that I'm about to do something vulnerable, something that matters to me, something that might matter to... See more
imposter syndrome is the price of showing up
I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About
The more my career takes me in the direction of creative projects that require alone time, the more I realize being productive has very little to do with high-stakes meetings, rushing from point A to point B, or can’t catch a breath to-do lists that I will probably half-ass due to exhaustion.
Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.
I wo... See more
Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.
I wo... See more