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I don’t know how…

…should be removed from your vocabulary unless it’s followed by the word “yet.” Here are two replacements: “I haven’t learned that yet.” “I’m not sure where to start. Can you point me in the right direction?” “I don’t know how” presents…

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Practical Thoughts on Career Progression

In the past, I’ve written about how I think about my career. In short, I look at three elements—Learn, Improve, and Impact. Provided those three boxes are checked, I’m moving in the right direction. I’ve been thinking about this more…

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Build a Better Signal

Isaac Morehouse on Medium: Not long ago a degree may have been the best signal most people could get. There weren’t many ways to demonstrate your value to the market, so a degree was one of the better bets. Things…

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Your Glass Ceiling

Francis Galton was a man who truly believed in natural talents and an upper ceiling for success and achievement. Take the following quotes, which were borrowed from Talent is Overrated by Geoffrey Colvin. His maximum performance becomes a rigidly determinate…

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