HeyJaredThe Sonali Dutta
Believe it or not, I was the shyest kid in class. That shyness followed me to work, but improving my social skills & overcoming insecurities changed everything. In this newsletter, I’ll help you be a better version of yourself in Life & Work.
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How to Network When You Don't Play Golf or Drink Alcohol (opens the original)
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Apparently, Senior Leaders Are Anti-AI and Anti-GenZ (opens the original)
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Every headline right now is telling you one of two stories - Either AI is coming for your job, or Gen Z is rewriting the rules of work. Scroll for five minutes and you’ll find both, sometimes in the same thread.Nobody’s writing the third story. The one about the person caught in the middle of both — the senior leader who’s given a company fifteen, twenty years, and is now expected to absorb an entirely new way of working while being quietly reminded, every day, that someone half their age might
You're Your Own Worst Enemy (And You Don't Even Know It) (opens the original)
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I was the shyest kid in class. Not by choice. Just genuinely, painfully quiet. Teachers told my parents, “Sonali’s so silent. She has one or two friends, and she only talks to them.” This wasn’t endearing. It was a label.Fast forward to high school. I finally found my people. Twelve or fifteen of us. We were loud, we were laughing, we were alive. One morning, we surprised a friend for his birthday at 6 AM. We’re all joking around, and about thirty minutes in, he looks at me and says, “Oh, Sonali
The Most Convincing Lies Are the Ones We Tell Ourselves (opens the original)
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A few days ago, I was part of a conversation about insecurities.Not the polished, social-media-friendly version of insecurities.The real ones.The ones that show up uninvited.The ones that somehow find a way into our careers, relationships, friendships, and decisions—even when we think we’ve moved past them.After the conversation ended, I found myself thinking about something I hadn’t expected.Not a question from the host.Not something I had said.But how easily we mistake familiar thoughts for fa
I'm Begging You to Ghost Everyone for 30 Days! (opens the original)
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June was the busiest month of the year. The kind of busy where you wake up feeling alive, the kind where your mojo returns after months of hating yourself for losing it. I was working hard, loving it, crushing it. Everyone around me (including myself) was convinced I’d crash. “Enjoy this high,” they said. “It won’t last forever. Make the most of it.”But something unexpected happened instead.Life had other plans.At the tail end of June, I felt this pull. A longing. A whisper that said: go back to
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