Doing the work > Preparing for the work

Links Tyler Cowen and David Perell Anna Gat Music: A Subversive History Agnes Callard on the Ezra Klein Show Me, being oh so witty Motivating questions How do we know when to push and when to rest, both at the micro level (e.g. in daily/weekly subproject level) and at the macro level (e.g. what projects to take on, when to quit a project)? What is the relationship between striving and acceptance?...

June 13, 2021 · 11 min · Me

On being nice

My comparative advantage (the craft of being nice :face_with_open_mouth_vomiting:🤢) It’s not often you see your CFO holding back tears. It’s even rarer when the reason he’s doing so is because you’re being fired. No, I wasn’t part of a mass layoff or a restructuring or a merger or anything like that. I just wasn’t very good at my job. We all knew it and I had already been interviewing at other places....

June 13, 2021 · 2 min · Me