Many careers have follow up work: * I'll send a follow up email, summarizing this conversation * What are our next steps? * How will we measure success? * What do you think they thought of the presentation? But a lot of careers/jobs don't have follow up work. You just show up, do…
In your zeal to try out new things, you may find that you often over-rotate on some of your hobbies. Personally, this meant that the basement was full of five-gallon glass jugs when I get into homebrewing (beers, wines, even sake). It also meant spending way too much time recompiling…
The most important thing you'll do today is deciding what you'll do today. When you're in the middle of work (usually hard work, the kind of work you don't really want to be doing), you may find yourself asking "why am I doing this?". That's when doubt begins to creep…
Life is not a passive activity - Plaque on display in author's living room Life is not something that happens to you, it's something you do. Put another pithy way, sometimes you have to make your own adventures. It's so easy to get trapped in the daily rut - same…
Do something great, and then talk about it Most everything we do in life is a form of marketing. Convincing a spouse or a co-worker of an idea, using our daily work to make a little bit of difference, even (especially, rather) curating our careers. When you update your resume…
If you're not improving yourself or enjoying yourself, it's not a good use of your time - Someone on Reddit A lot of what you read, write, watch, etc will encourage you to always be on. Always doing something productive with your time, whether that's reading, exercising, studying, or any…
Side Hustles are for Suckers Your time in this life is precious. To the greatest extent possible, you should enjoy what you do with your time. I know some people that enjoy the thrill of the side hustle, who love the chase and the undeniable validation that comes with a…
Years ago, my father was an OR (Operating Room) tech. He always had good stories at the end of a long day of work where a six-or-ten-hour surgery wasn't out of the ordinary. On one of these particularly long operations, several hours in, the surgeon looks over at a tech…