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The Most Important Career Decision Might Be the One You Get Wrong (opens the original)
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Gary Swart could have been one of the first employees at Netflix.Instead, he said no.Before Netflix was Netflix, Gary was working at Pure Software with Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. When Pure was acquired by Rational Software, Reed and Marc started thinking about what they wanted to build next.Their idea was to put DVDs in envelopes and mail them to people.Gary was not convinced.Why wouldn’t people just go to Blockbuster? A lot of people didn’t even have a DVD player. The idea sounded so ques
Who is Being Ignored in Your Industry? (opens the original)
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Women, we’re very good at making the best out of a situation. Learning the dress code.Finding something that almost fits.Carrying the bag without pockets.Working around the system instead of asking why the system was built that way in the first place.We adapt.And then, sometimes, someone steps up and questions: Why are we doing it this way? That was Sali Christeson.When Sali started Argent, she wasn’t trying to reinvent women’s workwear for the sake of fashion. She was frustrated. She had worked
The Problem With Knowing Too Late (opens the original)
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We have a strange relationship with information. We say we want to know. But often what we really mean is: we want to know when knowing is unavoidable.We wait for the symptom. We wait for the diagnosis. We wait for the warning sign to become a problem. We wait until the information is no longer information.It is evidence. And then we act.But what if the most valuable information is the information we get before we need it?I think about this a lot because of a moment that happened to
Invisibility as Survival (opens the original)
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I learned to disappear before I learned most other useful things.Not literally. I mean the quieter kind. Reading a room and smoothing yourself to fit it. The softening of the parts that might mark you as different, the name, the accent, the food, the family, the whole texture of where you came from. The instinct to blend, to not take up more space than you’d been silently allotted, to be easy, unthreatening, unremarkable. Invisible.If you grew up first-generation, or as the only one who looked l
Everyone Starts Somewhere Unlikely (opens the original)
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If you only meet people at the top, you come away with a dangerous theory of how the world works.You start to believe the successful were always going to be successful. That there’s a type. That they came from the right places, knew the right people, walked a straight clean line from an obvious beginning to an obvious end. It’s a comforting story if you already fit the type, and a crushing one if you don’t, because it quietly tells you the game was decided before you got here.I have now had doze
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