Careers Your 30s are a time to go for it (or not) When I talk to friends and acquaintances about work, we dance around similar question. What is enough? Should I get off the career train and focus elsewhere?
Music The haunting music of Sierra Ferrell and Casper Allen In honor of Bandcamp waiving their feeds for indie artists and motivated by my friend Tom Critchlow, I’d like to recommend two artists that stopped me in my
Personal Update It's about the people, stupid: Lessons from 1 year of Pilcrow House Pilcrow House is an event series that aims to foster candid conversation over some delicious food. At least, that’s what it is today. A year in, Allison and I
Careers What I wish I knew five years ago about building a career in "content" As of this writing, there are more than 1,000 content marketing positions on AngelList. It’s not only startups. A recent Axios story highlights how Netflix, Airbnb, Blackrock, Robinhood,
Careers How to take a sabbatical This won’t be like every other blog post about travel. Your narrator won’t be casually doing something awesome when suddenly there is a life-changing revelation. That’s not
Personal Update My dead dad’s journal: How I finally met a man I knew for my entire life For some reason, when my brother told me our dad was dead, I immediately went and listened to my voicemails. He left me silly voicemails often and I wanted to
Personal Update I work for the site with the funny name (A year in review) A year ago I flew to Austin, Texas and started my tenure as the Editor in Chief of the personal finance website I Will Teach You To Be Rich and
Politics Why We Should Fight to Keep Our President Tweeting On Sept. 23rd, the President of the United States tweeted the following: Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket
Personal Update Traveling Under Trump On November 8th, 2016 many Americans wished they were a world away. I actually was. And it sucked. As the east coast of the U.S. settled down for a
Media Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore. In January, Medium founder Ev Williams announced that despite his company’s efforts to better the news industry, it would refocus. The reason? We believe there are millions of thinking
Politics The Tyranny of Facts: Being “Right” is Not Enough Most philosophical and political disagreements don’t take place in courtrooms, they take place using a series of text boxes levied against an often-anonymous opponent. Or, if in person, in
Careers The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex As editor of 99U, my inbox is (thankfully) filled with pitches of all kinds. Mainly, writers who’d like to contribute to this site and speakers who’d like to
Entrepreneurship A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the 99U Refresh 2016 marked the seventh anniversary of 99U: a website, magazine, conference and book series dedicated to helping people make their ideas happen—and the publication I’ve worked on in
Careers The Most Defensible Thing You Can Do for Your Career: Build an Audience Tell me if this has ever happened to you: A well-known person in your field loses their job with impressive company X. Deep, deep inside you feel a vague sense
Movies The Greatest Millennial Actor in the Universe is Justin Long One of the great parts about being a millennial is that everyone else likes to tell you what you are and aren’t like and what does and doesn’t
Politics The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb. [Note: this post was originally published on Medium, where it received more than 3.5 million reads and selected as one of the best Medium posts of the decade.] There’
Media The Era of The RFE Publication Last year, Tyler the Creator changes the way I looked at my job. It was then, by all accounts, his group Odd Future spent the day running around the Buzzfeed
Entrepreneurship Bevel’s Tristan Walker: The Best Ideas Are Brewed out of Authenticity At 18, Tristan Walker had never even heard of Silicon Valley. By the time he turned 30, the New York City-native could boast of successful stints at cornerstones like Twitter,
Careers I Had Help. Earlier this month at the 99U Conference, ThinkUp co-founder Anil Dash spoke on the trajectory of careers: “Someone opened the door for you, they replied to your email, had coffee
Careers Molly Crabapple: The Best Path Is the One You Build Out of Your Own Dysfunction Matisse once opined that “Creativity takes courage.” Part artist, part journalist, Molly Crabapple has both in spades. The New York-based illustrator has reported from war-torn Syria and Guantanamo Bay, among
Careers A Troublemaker’s Manifesto: The Benefits of Wandering Psychologists are now seriously discussing extending the start of “adulthood” to 25. This is because, to them, young people are taking a while to “get started,” or to begin checking
Careers The Narrative Fallacy: Why You Shouldn't Copy Steve Jobs There are dozens of blog posts about Ben Franklin’s strict daily routine (and they all almost always include this picture), advocating that we should follow suit. Writers love to
Careers Want a Long Career? Zig When Everyone Else Zags. Fred Seibert is the king of downplay. He will be the first to tell you he doesn’t have a ton of skills—that his success is just something that
Careers Let’s Kill The Job Title One of my favorite career lessons comes courtesy of Dave Chappelle in the movie “Half Baked.” In the beginning of the film, his character, Thurgood, tells the story of his
Media Pretty Much Everything I Know About the News Business Last month, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen posted what, in his view, was the future of the news business. Reactions were varied, but everyone had one. I joked that my entire
