How to Respond to People Who Ask to Pick Your Brain
The problem with coffee date brain picking is that the advice you give (along with the time spent giving it) is lost into the ether. Helping one person at a tim...
Category: Career Growth
How Warren Buffett and Steven Spielberg Launched Their Careers
“Spielberg snuck onto soundstages and sat in editing rooms, soaking up as much information as he could. Some days he’d smuggle an extra suit in his briefcase, s...
How a First-Time Author Sold 5,000 Books in One Month
“Writing and marketing a new book is just like running a business. You start with an idea and a lot of unproven assumptions and your goal is to prove those assu...
Seven Ways to Prioritize Your Work
“No matter what you spend your time doing, you can never get that time back. And any time spent continuing to work towards the wrong priority is just wasted tim...
Nine Email Productivity Tips
“The average adult checks their email 45 times. Yet nobody has claimed to have changed the world by checking email.”
Four Ways to Figure out If You Should Take a Job
“Always, always, always choose the people. The people you work with every day will be by far the biggest factor in your work happiness. This isn’t measured just...
Money Is Fuel
“The purpose of a car is to go somewhere and fuel helps you get there. The purpose of a company is to accomplish something, to advance a greater cause, to contr...
There’s Only One Thing That Matters in Business
“No business ever failed to take off because they used Quickbooks instead of Xero, or because they chose the wrong free CRM or because they chose chose logo A i...
You Need Specificity in Marketing If You Want It to Work
“When you know exactly who you’re talking to, you speak to them directly — without vagaries.”
“Find Your Passion” Is Bad Advice
“The directive to ‘find your passion’ suggests a passive process. Telling people to develop their passion, however, suggests an active one that depends on us — ...