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What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Want
Everyone tells you to follow what you want, as if you’d been issued a list at birth. If you weren’t, here’s how to find out without waiting for a lightning bolt.
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Do the Thing Nobody Asked You To
Everything that moved my career forward was something I did without being told. Not extra hours. Extra ownership. There’s a difference, and it’s the whole game.
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Ask for the Raise Once, Properly, With the Folder
Most people never ask. The ones who do usually ask badly: vaguely, emotionally, at the wrong time. One good ask, prepared like a case, changes your income for years.
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Networking for People Who’d Rather Stay Home
I built a business on relationships and I hate networking events. Those two facts aren’t a contradiction. The events were never where the relationships came from.
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Interview the Job Before It Interviews You
Most people walk into an interview hoping to be chosen. The ones who end up in good jobs walk in deciding whether to choose. Five questions that tell you more than the job description ever will.
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The Hidden Cost of Being Good at Everything
Competence in many things feels like safety. It is often the reason nothing takes off. Pick the one thing to be unreasonably good at.
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Feedback Loops: How to Get Better Without a Coach
Coaches are valuable mostly because they close the loop between what you did and what happened. You can build that loop yourself, and most people never do.
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Talent Is the Entry Fee. Reps Are the Career.
Talent gets you noticed at twenty. What you are at forty is almost entirely reps. Here is why the gifted so often stall and the persistent so often pass them.
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Deliberate Practice for Adults Who Have Real Jobs
The research on deliberate practice was done on violinists with empty afternoons. Here is how to apply it when you have a job, a family and forty minutes.
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Work That Matters: Aligning Your Career With Your Values
A paycheck isn’t enough. Learn a practical framework for values-based career alignment so your work actually matches the life you respect.
Career & Purpose
Essays on building work that means something: choosing a direction, going deep instead of wide, changing lanes late, and finding the purpose that outlasts a job title. Lessons paid for over four decades of licenses, classrooms and reinventions.