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Don’t Snack. Appetize (opens the original)
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I’m Recruiting (opens the original)
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Legend has it Ernest Shackleton ran this ad to recruit crew for his 1914 attempt to cross Antarctica:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="884" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m1Hu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%
Recommendations, Peeves, and Things I Half-Believe (opens the original)
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Seems like the French have conquered August. Most of my podcasts and newsletters are reruns. My clients and collaborators are suspiciously quiet. Everyone seems to have decided they’ll be back in September.My life is a perpetual summer, so I’ll keep chugging along. But rather than waste a winter-worthy idea on checked-out minds, here are fourteen lighter things rattling around in mine.Poke around. Maybe one is worth taking your attention away from berry picking, napping, or lemonade drinking.<a
How to burn 60 million calories (opens the original)
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Back when I had a real job, I hated opening my Outlook inbox to find an invite from my boss for another “alignment meeting.” But now I’m starting to believe that’s what life is about. Not going into a huddle room to be told what you’re doing wrong and what to do instead. No.Life’s about alignment.Flipping it, that means life’s ultimate challenge is to minimize the friction caused by misalignment. And no, it doesn’t mean I owe my boss an apology. Her alignment meetings caused more friction than t
Replaced without difficulty (opens the original)
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My friend recently wrote about a Japanese psychiatrist’s warning that people mistake their job for ikigai until they leave and are ‘replaced without difficulty.’“Replaced without difficulty”Those three words found their ikigai in my brain. They capture what I’m working against: anyone wasting their potential in a role where they can be replaced without difficulty.Replaceable doesn’t mean worthless, but it does mean
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