The Future of Generalist Work
These passion job organizations are burnout factories. Every year, a new crop of eager recruits comes in, grateful to have landed a job doing work “they love” — and every year, a significant percentage of the existing workforce churns out. Some have been there that single year, others for five. They leave not because they’re not good “fits” for the... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • When Your Profession is On Fire
Each drop is creative and rebellious, winking to the world that capitalism is a necessary joke. They do all of this with a team of 34 people, most of whom are generalists with no background in making physical goods.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
The magic that MSCHF makes with generalists is the stuff of legend
This has been the core question I’ve sat with for the last decade—how to balance money and meaning on the entrepreneurial path. And there are three archetypal ways that I’ve seen people approach the question:
- The deferred life plan
- Being bivocational
- Choosing to integrate
Casey Rosengren • The 3 Ways to Balance Money and Meaning
Most ideas fail, but some will still create value for you even in failure.
An idea that allows you to acquire skills, experience, and build assets regardless of its ultimate success, is worth investing in.
An idea that allows you to acquire skills, experience, and build assets regardless of its ultimate success, is worth investing in.
How To Figure Out If Your Idea Is Worth Spending Time On - For The Interested
We need resumes that include transition and points of inflection.
Bulletpoints of accomplishments can get redundant and reductive. With AI on the rise, just doing the job might not the most important thing to prove. Things are changing quickly.
We need resumes that show agility– an ability to learn and adapt.
Bulletpoints of accomplishments can get redundant and reductive. With AI on the rise, just doing the job might not the most important thing to prove. Things are changing quickly.
We need resumes that show agility– an ability to learn and adapt.
[ The Future of Resumes ] — CAVEDAY
The Silicon Valley small business, the SV-SB, is a hybrid of sorts — it intertwines small business values and discipline with big tech know-how and ambition.
- Founding teams may look like that of a “traditional” Silicon Valley startup. They’re native to Silicon Valley ethos, skills, and playbooks. But , beneath the surface, they’re different. You
Anu • Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business
Don't decide too soon. Kids who know early what they want to do seem impressive, as if they got the answer to some math question before the other kids. They have an answer, certainly, but odds are it's wrong.