Follow your passion is bad advice. The grass will always be greener and developing deep career capital through mastery is the true way to happiness. Deep mastery allows for autonomy.
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dakotah started reading Small Talk that Doesn't Suck by Patrick King
dakotah reviewed So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is …
Don't follow your passion
4 stars
dakotah rated So Good They Can't Ignore You: 4 stars
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is …
dakotah finished reading So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is …
Follow your passion is bad advice. The grass will always be greener and developing deep career capital through mastery is the true way to happiness. Deep mastery allows for autonomy.
dakotah started reading So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is …
dakotah finished reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of …
dakotah rated The Bullet Journal Method: 5 stars
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, Online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind …
dakotah finished reading The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, Online and off, but none of them …
Refresher from library to get back into journaling.
dakotah wants to read So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is …
dakotah reviewed It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried
Calm
4 stars
The co-founders of Basecamp can be considered crazy by some because they think about things intentionally that other companies give no consideration to. This book was great insight into how they make considerate decisions on building a company that focuses on productivity of their workers and isn't a crazy environment. Those that think they are crazy are lowest-common-denominator thinkers who accept the crazy and distracted modern environment as the ideal.
Takeaways: - Avoid work chat as much as possible. Communicate asynchronously. - Pay people for their worth, not addresses. - Don't plan beyond 6 weeks in the future. Those plans always change anyway. - If there is too much to do at work, you're not making decisions to cut out things that aren't needed.
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dakotah rated The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable: 5 stars
dakotah finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Easy read with the narrative style and short chapters.