1. Notes on Doing Things, Ribbon Farm "What Disneyland creates is a zone of hyper-agency, where many behaviors are available, all enjoyable, all fun."https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/05/10/notes-on-doing-things/ …
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Spent this lazy Sunday afternoon thinking about careers, and life I don't really believe there's a "right answer" to how to chose a job, but here are a bunch of perspectives that helped me form my own
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2. The Risk Not Taken, Andy Dunn "Very little is obvious in the research on human decision-making and happiness. Very few things are proven. One thing that is proven is this: the only regrets octogenarians have are for the risks not taken."https://medium.com/@dunn/the-risk-not-taken-40cf0a8919cb …
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3. Against Social Optionality, Taimur Abdaal "If you know that you’ll be with someone for 10 days, or maybe the rest of your life, it’s in both of your best interests to find a way to valuably connect. Low optionality encourages the long game."https://taimur.me/posts/against-social-optionality/ …
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4. What to work on, Julian Shapiro "Until you've accomplished something deeply fulfilling, you don't realize the following: If you're already attaining the other values on your list (e.g. Adventure and Knowledge), Money rapidly becomes less interesting."https://www.julian.com/blog/life-planning …
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5. In Praise of Work, Epsilon Theory "If you reduce your work-less job from 70 hours to 55, you will still be unhappy...Good people are wired to be productive, to contribute and to give more than they got."https://www.epsilontheory.com/in-praise-of-work/ …
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7. Workism Is Making Americans Miserable, The Atlantic "The output of white-collar work—algorithms, consulting projects, programmatic advertising campaigns—is more shapeless and often quite invisible."https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/583441/ …
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8. Ten Things I Have Learned, Milton Glasser "If you have a choice, never have a job" https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf …
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9. Competent Elites, Eliezer Yudkowsky "No, even worse than that, much worse than that: these CEOs and CTOs and hedge-fund traders, these folk of the mid-level power elite, seemed happier and more alive."https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKpByWmsZ8WmpHtYa/competent-elites …
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10. Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, Randy Pauschhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo …
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11. The Parable of the Talents, Slate Star Codex "I know people who want to get good at writing, and make a mighty resolution to write two hundred words a day every day, and then... give up. These people think I’m amazing, and why shouldn’t they?"https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-talents/ …
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12. How Retirement Changes Your Identity, HBR "Would you be more likely to say that your work is what you do or your work is who you are?"https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/01/how-retirement-changes-your-identity.html …
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13. The Adjacency Fallacy, Ribbon Farm "...your sense of objective value is determined by the striations in the landscape, even if your own mobility is not constrained by it."https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/10/08/the-adjacency-fallacy/ …
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14. How to do what you love, Paul Graham "How much are you supposed to like what you do? Unless you know that, you don't know when to stop searching. And if, like most people, you underestimate it, you'll tend to stop searching too early." http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
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15. Lemmy (This is not a practice life), Visakan Veerasamy "A 25 year old man has no excuse for not knowing what he wants, for not having a vision of what a good life means to him, for not having a plan to enact and realize that vision"http://visakanv.com/1000/0536-lemmy-this-is-not-a-practice-life/ …
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