Career & Ambition

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Ambition without direction just produces busyness. This is about choosing what to build a career on top of.

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Optimize for compounding, not for prestige

A less impressive role that teaches you something rare will outpace a more impressive one that teaches you nothing new.

Waiting for a review cycle to learn how you're doing means you're always working from six-month-old information. Ask sooner.

It's rarely the big conference pitch — it's the follow-up email, the small favor, the thing you said you'd send and did.

Trying this one out? Tell the herd how it's going.

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