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Episode 993
The most critical career mistake you can make isn't a secret. Are you in control? If you aren't driving your career, who is?
What if the best thing yo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Failure is an Opportunity for Responsibility
Episode 992
The romance of endless success is a broken picture of reality.
Instead, focus on inviting failure and taking advantage of the opportunity it brings: t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Friday Refill: What Are Your Ideals?
Episode 991
What are your ideals? For many people, ideals are fragile. The moment we see a hero fall, our own lives are immediately thrown into a state of confus…
4 years, 9 months ago
4 Questions To Understand Your Long Term Career Trajectory
Episode 990
Great questions trigger thought and further questions. In this episode, I pose 4 questions (and a bit of homework) to help you get a handle on where …
4 years, 9 months ago
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO, Part Two
Episode 989
Joel Beasley is the host of Modern CTO, a podcast with guests coming from IBM, Microsoft, Nasa, Reddit, and hundreds of others. Joel and I have wante…
4 years, 9 months ago
Friday Refill: Give Tomorrow-You Advice from Today
Episode 988
Happy Friday everyone! Today we talk about fighting the inertia of the daily slide into habits. How many days have seemed to slip through your finger…
4 years, 9 months ago
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO
Episode 987
Joel Beasley is the host of Modern CTO, a podcast with guests coming from IBM, Microsoft, Nasa, Reddit, and hundreds of others. Joel and I have wante…
4 years, 9 months ago
Uncomfortable Silence: What If You Do Nothing?
Episode 986
What if the best thing you could do was nothing?
Not indefinitely, of course - but often, we intervene in the world when the right choice is to do not…
4 years, 9 months ago
Friday Refill: Imaginary Comparisons
Episode 985
Comparison is an incredibly important tool. But most of the time, the comparisons we are making are imaginary - even the ones that seem real. In this…
4 years, 9 months ago
Implicit Hypotheses
Episode 984
Are you acting on impulse? How would you know? One door to understanding this "acting without thinking" is to investigate our hypotheses. Implicit hy…
4 years, 9 months ago