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Writing
essays, fragments, longer pieces, and other thinking out loud
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So, What Do You Do?
What a scrawny, psychedelic-consuming, Harvard dropout from the 70s taught me.
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Shadow Careers
I have four ways forward. "Turning Pro" made me wonder if three of them are hiding places.
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I Was Laid Off as a C-Suite Officer at 25
Sometimes life doesn’t go the way you expect.
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The Mountain Doesn't Care How Badly You Want the Top
I've spent my life reaching summits and turning each one into the base of the next. The mountains have been trying to tell me something.
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Receipt for the Climb
What “The Gap and the Gain” showed me about the climb from being laid off to here
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Mr. Therapist Guy Wins This Round
How a business book called The Science of Scaling accidentally answered the biggest question my therapist ever asked me.
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What if mastery and generalism aren't opposites?
What Robert Greene's Mastery gets right, and the one thing it misses about people like me.
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