Community Building The Social Architecture of Impactful Communities A guide for community builders creating impactful organizations.
Careers What kind of work ethic does it take to build a successful career? Finding a job that doesn't feel like work.
Sensemaking The Blue Church vs. The Red Religion: The Battle for How We Make Sense Something’s broken with the way our society makes sense of reality
Careers Is it a bad job or just a bad day? Five lenses to view the question of whether it’s time to leave
Careers Career Transition Risk and the Ladder of Legitimacy A playbook for overcoming the objections of your future hiring manager.
Sensemaking How to gain an information-edge by asking better questions The success your decisions depends on the quality of information you use to inform them.
Careers This chart can tell you when it’s time to leave your job And how to improve your role when you're no longer feeling inspired.
Personal Finance A startup jobseeker’s guide for moving to San Francisco America is losing its dynamism and succumbing to complacency. At least, that’s the argument Tyler Cowen makes in The Complacent Class...
Education Will an MBA help you get ahead in tech? One problem with taking advice from the internet is that the advice-giver doesn’t know you or your goals. This means he’ll likely substitute his own status and aspirations for yours. If you aren’t aware of this when following the advice, you can get steered in the wrong direction...
Personal Growth 10 Pieces of Advice for My Future Self Last week I turned 30. This seems as good an occasion as any to memorialize some learnings from the past three decades...
Careers Does Your Liberal Arts Degree Belong at a Startup? It's Spring, which means a new crop of liberal arts grads is preparing to pass through the hallowed gates of universities across the country into well-trodden career paths like law, medicine, academia and consulting...
Personal Growth Take to the Oars If you visit Tradecraft, you’ll notice this quote hanging on the wall. It embodies a mindset we witness time and again in individuals who are successful in our program, and who go on to build amazing careers in Silicon Valley: resilience.
Education The Restaurant and the Kitchen If you’re like me, you’ve spent most of your education at schools that resemble restaurants. You show up to lectures, sit in your seat and expect to have your hunger for knowledge satisfied. The meal was chosen for you and was cooked and served by other people.
