HeyJaredThe Spellbook of Becoming by Miss Solvent
Spell-stories about leadership, endurance, and life’s unfinished business. Netherlands by day, Hogwarts by heart. Probably still owes someone a wand.
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A woman with a leash and no dog (opens the original)
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Dear me,Last month, at an Irish pub in Cork, I heard somebody giving advice to a junior.“Number one rule,” the person said. Only work with people you’ve worked with before. Or with people someone you trust has worked with. That way, you wouldn’t have any surprises.Then they raised their Guinness, took a sip, and put the glass back on the same wet spot where the glass used to be. They looked very comfortable with this.
What spider venom showed me about change (opens the original)
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Dear system thinkers, Never have I ever thought spider venom would teach me so much about change. Yet here we are. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="492.21375" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LJDQ!,w_1456,c_limi
The executive who kept his coat on (opens the original)
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“Please don’t tell a person to be strong when they come to you to be weak.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1563" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XG-q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
This plan won't work. Coming to lunch? (opens the original)
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Dear serial expats — Today on a train, a guy noticed my book The Culture Map, and said: “My boss gave me that so I wouldn’t be too direct with my clients.”Apparently, directness is a liability to be managed.Oh well.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R8DW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
You cannot calibrate a barefoot (opens the original)
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Once there was a little town located on the banks of a very unpredictable river that could not hold still. Legend had it that the river drowned the mayor’s father. Naturally, no one in the town liked that river much. But it had been the only way to the markets on the far side and the town could not do without it. For two hundred years there had been a ford: a shallow place where a person could wade across with a cart and come out wet only to the knee. Children learned the ford before they learne
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