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My Portfolio Career Architecture
100+ newsletter editions in, it's time for a review: how it started, how it's going, and how it's going to go. Read this if you also want to have a portfolio career.
How to find out what you're meant to do
Take two long, hard looks: one backward, one forward.
1000 subscribers later: 11 lessons on creativity, content & momentum
What I've learned in almost 3 years of publishing weekly.
Reverse Benchmarking
Everybody wants to do well what others do well – the magic lies in what the competition is neglecting.
Smart People Should Build Things
Why the hell do we send our best graduates into non-value creating professions like consulting or finance?
The Future of Entry-Level Jobs
A few days ago, at a Shawarma shop, a man approached my friend Carmine and me – he’d noticed we were speaking about all things software. He asked: “my nephew is studying software engineering - what would you recommend to him?” I said: “don’t study software engineering.” We chuckled.
The Three Components of a Successful Service Business
I believe that successful service businesses have three core components: * Strong branding * Relentless execution * Aligned incentives Let's dive in. 🤿 Strong branding. A brand becomes strong when other people say about it what you say about it. I'll take my recruiting studio Generalyst as example. For example,
The Generalyst Manifesto for Startups
You can't expect non-linear results from linear people.
A few smart things I wrote on index cards last month [#87]
Like: When you compete against others, no one helps you. When you compete against yourself, everybody does.
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Rebuild Your Productivity Stack: Part 2 [#86]
A plan is worthless if it's never executed. Take these 4 steps to go from plan to reality.
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