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Links to see on how to find the job you love, how to overcome childhood trauma and become a millionaire, and the coming age of decentralization.
Shyvee Shi interviews phyl terry on finding the job you love.
These were my favorite bits:
“reverse exit interviews”: conversations with former colleagues to get radically honest feedback and what you did well and what you could have done better.
Golden Question: If you were in my shoes, how would you approach this job search?. Ask this question to a range of people in your network, starting with former colleagues.
Leverage recruiters as your thought partners by asking these 3 questions:
What kind of jobs could I get with no effort?
What kind of jobs are a stretch?
What kind of jobs would be out of my league?
Marc Andreessen’s 2007 blog post on planning your career.
Two big takeaways for me:
Focus on risks and opportunity costs. What are you really giving up? It’s not all financial.
Focus on skill acquisition. You have reduced risk tolerance when you have kids.
Shreyas Doshi’s questions to ask people you manage.
These are great questions period, regardless if you manage someone or not. You can reflect on them as an individual to get clarity on your preferred working conditions and teams.
Tell me your career story
What is working well for you here / not working well
What type of work energizes you most / least
How do you prefer to get feedback & get recognized
How is your relationship with key team members
What is the most pressing issue I can assist you with
Not Boring is a great source of optimism and positivity around our current environment. Things will be hard but the human spirit and ingenuity allow us to overcome the challenges. This week Packy proposes his theory of decentralization and where he sees it in the future across energy, education, governance, science, finance, manufacturing, biotech, and more.
Two podcast interviews on the childhood trauma of two hosts of the All-In Podcast.
Lex Fridman interviews Chamath.
What stood out was Chamath discussing how he dealt with childhood trauma. Abuse. Feelings of not enough. He’s a billionaire but he still seeks that feeling of being normal.
Tim Ferriss interviews Jason Calacanis.
Jason’s story about loyalty resonated the most with me. How the virtue was instilled in him by his father to keep Jason and his brothers looking out for each other.
But staying on the theme of childhood trauma, he also talks about the desire for power caused by the childhood trauma of his dad’s tax issues. You’re the man now. Take care of mom.
It gave him the fuel to overcome failure and become who he is today.
Thanks for reading,
Andrew