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I enjoyed Rieseberg's advice is for junior engineers, and think that it applies to all kinds of careers. I tell my students all the time to be builders wherever they go, and this illustrates that idea really well. It also accounts for the problem of lacking "social
I quite enjoyed this piece by Mariam Sabri who teaches the history of science in Pakistan. It’s a case for breadth of experience, using evidence from the lives of four medieval Islamic polymaths. Alhazen, for example, worked out his theory of vision while under house arrest, after pretending to
An excellent article on what happens when you orient your career towards progress. It’s written for career pivots, but has the kind of advice that can help college students in thinking about their first steps and all the ones that follow. A focus on progress is an active commitment
Very good advice all around, and it almost all applies to people you know and people you don’t. My last heuristic is stranger: make it easy to say no. You might think that the worst outcome is a no, but the worst outcome is a pressured, begrudging yes. Your
A great read, and not just because of how deeply I felt the distinction between love-work and hate-work. I also really enjoyed how Horton described research eras in psychology. All fields have this sort of thing, and knowing them helps make sense of how we got to our
Companies laying off workers for AI agents are either misjudging how agents will work or they're just low-ambition companies.