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about hiring and accepting a job, and to find your people, whether inside your organization or not. Many people I know carry colleague-friendships on through their fields long after they worked together directly.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
the first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a “safe” code of conduct — one that would earn everyone’s approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone — for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservat
... See moreHarry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Our email blasts, which I sent out every few weeks, were celebratory missives, written to our friends. I kept the tone personal: Come to a party at the house. Or come to a Dolls show at a club. Or come…
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Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
themarginalian.org
Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest… if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not
... See moreSo I offer you such freedom of the will as exists for some people, some of the time, occasionally leading them to succeed when others fail; maybe moving them to a higher level of consciousness, above their animal ways, to truly human behavior. It’s not a total kind of freedom, as René Descartes describes in Passions of the Soul (1649), where he wri
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Venkatesh Rao • Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
