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The Big Law Trap | Guest Essay by Ranjit Saimbi
The following is a guest essay by Ranjit Saimbi. I remember a kid called Rupert saying that he wanted to be a “corporate lawyer” when he grew up. We had this conversation at age fifteen, and Rupert knew as much of the world as I did. That’s to say, not very much. When you have ... Read more
The 2nd Chapter Of Success: Coming Up With New Metrics For What Matters
In 2015, Kevin Durant left his team of nine years to join the best basketball team in the world. In the NBA, great players like Durant are judged based on whether or not they win championships. This undoubtedly influenced his decision to join the team with the best chance to achieve that goal. Except when ... Read more
Edgar Schein’s Anxiety & Assumptions: Powerful Ideas On Culture
Culture is a messy term. In 1952, two Academics, Kroeber and Kluckhohn, completed a comprehensive review of the term and found that by then there were over 134 definitions. As Kroeber and Kluckhohn explored the history of the word, they found all roads pointing to Germany, where the word was emerging as “cultur”: Kant, for ... Read more
Amazon, Corporate Welfare & The Illusion Of Jobs
New York City saved $1.5 billion in handouts it was going to give Amazon to set up a second headquarters in the city. In exchange, Amazon promised to bring to give Amazon for bringing 25,000 jobs to the city. Now the handouts are gone and those jobs are off the table. Right? Not according to ... Read more
Rest By Alex Pang: Summary & Key Quotes
Rest By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rating: 10/10 Buy Book On Amazon Podcast Episode My Short Summary Alex Pang makes sense of the idea of “rest” through his own journey taking a sabbatical after leaving Academia and the corporate world. What he discovers is that we have lost connection with an ancient idea and broader conception ... Read more
The best career and life advice from Scott Adams, Debbie Millman, Hunter Thompson & Others
The most profound life and career advice I’ve ever come across was an obscure letter written by Hunter S. Thompson to a friend asking him for life advice. Career advice is tricky because many people give tactical advice on how to navigate the future. If you’ve never heard of Thompson, he was a famous writer ... Read more
Hunter S. Thompson’s Life Advice To A Friend Is Priceless
From the book Letters of Note, which has a number of famous essays and letters from people like Emily Dickinson, Galileo and Amelia Earhart. This is an essay from the writer Hunter S. Thompson to his friend Hume: April 22, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City Dear Hume, You ask advice: ah, what a ... Read more
Life Without A Map: Navigating The Pathless Path of Self-Employment
Over the past two and half years, I’ve been navigating unknown territory, grappling with the deep philosophical questions of how to live life, and wondering how my parent’s generation, the boomers, lived life as if they had a map. For most of my life, I pretended I had a map. It seemed that was what ... Read more
I’m not writing for you (who I write for)
I recently listened to a conversation between Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman. Seth was offering a story about when he knew that David Chang, the founder of the famous Momofuku restaurants, was “on his way.” Seth is a vegetarian and upon visiting Momofuku noodle bar several times in the past, was able to order a ... Read more
It’s Time We Bury The Idea Of A “Good Career Trajectory”
The idea of a good career path or a career trajectory is deeply embedded in our beliefs about how work should be. While it would be amazing if this was a reality that people could count on, I believe that it is a product of a unique moment in history. “This person has a good ... Read more