Life Advice - No Magic Pill
Life Advice
Emmett Shear on X: "When I was CEOing at Twitch one of the thing I’d do every batch of interns was a very short presentation on the origins of the company and then a Q&A. One of the questions was always, “Where should I work and what job should I get, or should I start a company?”" / X
Shear's advice to interns
On The Franklin Effect
Things I Sometimes Forget But Should Definitely Not Forget Because They Are So Important
World Views Essay
cliff weizman's
People in their 40s, what’s something people in their 20s don’t realize is going to affect them when they age?
Generic advice caveats
Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had, as …
Actually doing things
[New post] Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible
Triumphs of Experience - The Men of the Harvard Grant Study - George E. Vaillant (2012).pdf
Advice for Alli
The lazy person’s guide to success
The importance trap
at almost every threshold there are a bunch of people who set up a basecamp where they discuss how to cross the threshold. some of those people do go on to cross the threshold, but those people tend to then become incomprehensible to most of those who are still in basecamp
A thread with 7 high value ideas & habits that took me more than a decade of my career (and dozens of costly mistakes) to learn:
What To Know
The career advice I most often find myself giving is "maximize your chance of becoming one of the best in the world at any broadly-leveragable thing".
The best general advice on earth « the jsomers.net blog
Advice for ambitious teenagers
What it’s like to be 28
Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails — LessWrong
My addendum to Tammy's list of excellent advice is one not everyone will agree with: