The New and The Next - Issue #58

On the surface, this is a story about a tech bro who thinks that he is god’s gift to them, that they should worship the ground he walks on and that they should be thankful for his very presence, and that they booted Rick’s ass out the door because his reputation cashed checks that his talent couldn’t pay for.

My 28 day live case study saw me build a spoken version of Medium, only for them to launch the same thing three months later.

Wondering why your blog isn’t gaining traction? It’s probably because your content is bad. In this post, I define high quality content with examples.

You can’t create an online work portfolio if you aren’t tracking your work accomplishments. Learn how to efficiently track your work achievements.

These are the best blogs of 2017. I promise you there are A LOT of hidden gems in here that you definitely don’t know about but should. Read. Get smarter.

A friend of mine, Lachlan Campbell, recently asked me how I focus, especially when there’s so much going on. It’s a great question and I’m sure very apropos to Lachlan’s life.

The proliferation of inexpensive cloud services offer near-ubiquitous access to your files as well as something rather insidious…

Four things to focus on.

Think about how you want to break up your periods of concentrated work.

As one career expert explains, the art of “speculative job applications” may be a numbers game, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

In business or life, strategy is about creating and orchestrating a plan to achieve future goals. Here’s how to make effective strategies that work for you.

Ryan Grant turned a lucrative side-hustle of flipping Barbies and other purchases into a full-time job.

Picking up new skills has become as easy as firing up Google, doing some research, practicing in the right ways, and pushing yourself through the plateaus. 

Blind, the anonymous employee chat app for employees, polled thousand of tech workers about their job satisfaction and salaries.

A version of the Facebook Explore Feed is being tested in six countries that removes organic brand content from the news feed. Here’s what you need to know.

Wall Street has long been the industry people love to hate. But as big tech’s reputation plummets, suddenly a job at Facebook doesn’t seem so cool

Insights from every Amazon Shareholder Letter dating back to 1997.

Here are Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ tips about inspiration, work-life balance, and how to be an inventor. 

Today I woke up to the headline that Khloé Kardashian brought her own lighting gear and crew to her driver’s license photo. How silly. How vain. 

Confusion, self-doubt, existential searching, getting lost, and then finding your way out of that state of disequilibrium—these are the essential experiences for the emergence of creativity.