September 25, 2021 • 0 Comments
Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy
Once you’ve found success building and selling something on the internet, no matter how small,...
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Deeper Thinking On Work
My writing is an ongoing "conversation" with the ideas that matter to me. Currently writing about: the history of work, unleashing our creative potential, gift economy and books I read. I don't see anything I've written as "finished" so let me know what you think?
Who I Write For
My Story
- Experiments In The Gift Economy
- Burning Out At Age 32
- Beanie Baby Curiosity
- Ten Most Surprising Benefits of Self-Employment
- My Awakening: Quitting the Default Path
- Getting Rejected And Landing My Dream Job @ McKinsey
- Decoding High-Performance at McKinsey & Company
- Finding My Passion, My Journey To Unlock My Purpose
Carve Your Own Path
- The 10 "Hustle Traps" to avoid on the creative path
- The New Economy: Tech, Finance, or SOL
- Learn The Game, Don't Become The Game
- Unlocking The Second Chapter Of Success
- Navigating the Pathless Path: Four Stages of the Journey
- Reinvention: 5 Ways To Reinvent Yourself For The Future
- Finding the types of "Prestige" that you actually want
- Beyond Work Sucks: How To Actually Take Action
- The Other Side Of Rest: Taking A Break To Find What Matters
- 10 Career Myths We Should Stop Believing
- The Simple Guide For Starting a Podcast
- Career Transition Playbook
Organizations
- Maslow Didn't Invent The Pyramid
- Deep Dive into Edgar Schein's Theory of Organizational Culture
- The REAL Dark Side Of Consulting: Why Consulting Is A Symptom and Not A Problem
- Chaos Theory: How Companies Can Use Complexity Science To Build Better Futures
- Crisis At Work: Six Reasons Organizations Fail To Unleash Human Potential
- My Reflections On Why McKinsey & Company Is So Successful
Remote Work
- The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Digital Nomad
- Five Levels Of Remote Work
- Non-Obvious Remote Working Tips
- Facilitating Virtual Sessions
- Interviews: CEO, Doist, CEO, Zapier, Consultant Laurel Farer
Future (History) Of Work
- The emergence of the knowledge worker mind
- Hamsternomics: Rethinking Our Fundamental Economic Future
- Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped Work
- The Nine Modern School Of Work That Shape Our Beliefs
- It's Time To Retire The Idea of a Steady Career Trajectory
- The Four Day Workweek Is Not About Working Less
- The *Five* Future Of Work Conversations
- Questioning Work: The Unintended Consequences of "Work"
- The Future of Work Mindset Shift
- The Future of Work: What Winning Orgs Will Look Like in 2025
Freelancing & Talent Platforms
- Failed Promise Of Freelance Talent Platforms
- Freelance Consultant Playbook
- Ultimate Guide To Talent Platforms
Reads
- Review of Aspiration by Agnes Callard
- Review of Alex Pang's Book Rest
- Review Of "Black Mass" On The Dangers Of Utopia
- All The Things Worth Reading In 2018 (175+ Links)
- John Maynard Keynes Famous 1930's essay "Dreams For My Grandchildren"
- Twelve Lessons From Adam Grant's Originals
- Bullshit Jobs PowerPoint Book Review
Category:
- All Categories
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- Bad Business Ideas
- Books
- Boston Consulting Group
- BoundlessReads
- Burnout
- Business School
- Career Advice
- Career Paths
- Career Transition
- Coaching
- Consulting
- Consulting Skills
- Conventional Practice
- Creativity
- Creator Economy
- Curiosity
- Defining Success
- Digital Nomad
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Education
- Energy
- Entrepreneurship
- Fear
- Feedback
- Financial Reports
- FIRE
- Freelance
- Freelance Talent Markets
- Friendship
- Future of Work
- Gift Economy
- Gig Economy
- Goals
- Goals vs. Systems
- Health
- High Performance Environment
- Highlighted
- Hiring
- Humor
- Job Search
- Knowledge Work
- Leadership
- Leadership Assessments
- Learning
- Leisure
- Life Design
- McKinsey & Company
- Meaning
- Millennials
- Money
- Motivation
- Networking
- Online Learning
- Organizational Culture
- Organizations
- Passion
- People Ops
- Performance Assessment
- Personal Story
- Philosophy
- Playbooks
- Podcast
- post-work
- Purpose
- Quitting
- Reading
- Reflection
- Rejection
- Relationships
- Remote Company
- Remote Work
- Research
- Resilience
- Rest
- Self-Assessment
- Self-Employment
- Shareholder Value
- Skills
- Sports
- Startups
- Taking Action
- Talent
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- Telling Your story
- Thinking
- Thoughts
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- Uncategorized
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September 19, 2021 • 0 Comments
How To Tame The Shadow Side Of Solopreneurship – Darren Joe (Podcast)
“You can’t study or learn your way into a new identity” – I love this...
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September 19, 2021 • 0 Comments
“Ambition Is Frozen Desire” – Excerpt From David Whyte’s Consolations
David Whyte has become one of my favorite authors and Poets. His book, The Three...
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July 6, 2021
Ben Hunt on Industrially Necessary Paths & How To Live In The Now
Ben Hunt is a father, husband, former academic, the author turned blogger, former hedge fund...
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June 17, 2021
The Ultimate Guide & Reasons To Take A Sabbatical
After I quit my job in 2017 I spent 5 weeks in Europe. It was...
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April 25, 2021
My Five-Year Journey Creating, Launching, Failing & Succeeding With Online Courses
I created my first online course because I didn’t want to help any more people...
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March 20, 2021
Accidental Meaning: Why The American Dream Isn’t Working As Planned
There was a state of affairs in many places across the world that enabled many...
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March 6, 2021
How I Think About Money & Retirement While Self Employed
The most common question I get from people who are not self-employed is about my...
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March 6, 2021
How Obsession With Work Killed Our Connection With Leisure
More than two thousand years ago, the Roman stoic philosopher Seneca wrote a letter to...
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March 6, 2021
The Inevitable Decline Of The Elite Full-Time MBA
I want to explore the changing dynamics of how people earn prestige, the new dynamics...
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March 6, 2021
The Battle For The Soul Of The Creator Economy
The “future of work” is dead or maybe it finally arrived in the form of...
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January 27, 2021
Daniel Vassallo – The Self-Employment Meta Game (Podcast)
Dan Vassallo walked away from a $500k a year salary at Amazon to become self-employed....
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