Work
This breed of company will never spring from the mind of a committee; it would never have been permitted to endure in its current form, with thousands of employees organizing themselves around problems at hand, if we had submitted to the conventional managerial model in American corporate life.
if you don’t have any public work or public proof then congratulations, you are whatever the hive mind imagines you to be.
... See moreTo keep it low risk, I reached out to the only other person I knew running a ghostwriting business.
They gave me a freelance role at their company. So I started getting the reps in. At the same time, I also committed to the craft of writing:
Minimum of 500 words per day (hit this for 660 days in a row)
30-minutes of daily copywork (hand-copying great
Figure out what is your core required achievement at this point in time — writing, building a data set, whatever — and do it first thing in the day no matter what.
... See moreMost guys will live and die without ever doing anything truly remarkable. They'll work jobs they tolerate, take vacations to places everyone's been, and fill their free time with Netflix and social media.
Look at the lives of men who defined what it means to be truly interesting:
Roosevelt hunted big game in Africa, survived being shot during a speec
... See moreThe typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today, and no more than a third the managers. In its structure, and in its management problems and concerns, it will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company, circa 1950, which our textbooks still consider the norm… th
... See moreHistorically, work looked very different. In the 1700s, approximately 90% of Americans were self-employed or engaged in family-owned trades or agriculture. Even by the early to mid-1800s, around 80-85% were independent artisans or farmers, continuing the tradition of self-employment. This dynamic began to shift dramatically with industrialization,
Before he kicks off his original reporting for a book, he first reads every piece of secondary material on his subject (and time period) he can get his hands on, from other seminal books on them to national and magazine stories from the time, followed by small-town newspaper articles.