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?
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
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
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
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
Careers You Don’t Need To Learn To Code + Other Truths About the Future of Careers There’s a reason most “conventional” career advice sucks: the world is changing at a rapid clip. When well-meaning mentors give advice based on their experiences decades ago, it’s
Careers 10 Tips for an Awesome Coffee Meeting The coffee meeting is the Swiss Army knife of networking. It’s a low-risk way to meet new people, swap advice, and lay the foundation for a more substantial relationship.
Careers The Introversion Bubble Recently, I attended a conference alone. When it came to the conference’s opening night cocktail hour, I was a bit nervous. I knew none of the attendees, and
Careers The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking If you want to know about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ obsession with longevity, all you have to do is read up about his side projects. You could check out his
