Category: Creator Confidential
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If you’re unsure what to do, take any action
Here’s a useful reminder from Brian Armstrong, who leads Coinbase: One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple…
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Defense to offense
When I was a child, my parents enrolled me in a rec floor hockey league. I played defense for a couple of years, until a snow day happened and the team needed me to play offense. I shifted my focus away from clearing the ball away from my own net, and instead on putting pressure…
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Five tactics to scan for career opportunities
If you ever find yourself exploring the job market, you can treat these five posts as a mini-guide to help scan for opportunities. I wrote these with my tech marketing career experiences in mind. I think the insights are widely applicable: How to reach out to your network for opportunities: These approaches are useful particularly…
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Clarify what your career currently supports
Your career can help you solve one problem at a time. It benefits from having a primary focus. Here are some factors I have solved for, either through intuition or intention: Learning: When I started freelancing and grew that business into an editorial studio, I wanted to learn the ropes of starting a business. Earning:…
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The Middle Way
In Buddhist philosophy, the Middle Way is a practice that steers clear of extremes. It involves eight interconnected guidelines. You can consider the guitar string an analogy for the Middle Way: a guitar string needs to be just tight enough—not too loose, or too tight—to sound right. In the world of creative work, balancing art…
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Fill in stories with realistic details
One of my favorite authors was hired by a prestigious media platform to do a travel show. He hired one of his favorite rappers to record the theme song. He got paid to travel. He went on adventures, gained notoriety, and grew the community of people who followed him. It all looked great from the…