Things I’ve learned from years inside startups and scaling companies — about work, leadership, and building a career that actually fits.
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Video: Interviewing and Being Interviewed (10 minutes)
In this 4-part compilation of clips on interviewing, Molly shares insights to help people on both sides of the interview table.
In this 4-part compilation of clips on interviewing, Molly shares insights to help people on both sides of the...
You can’t choose what happens, but you can choose how you respond
My biggest work regret isn't a decision I made. It's how I acted while making it. Don Faul — Marine, former CrossFit CEO — on the one thing you actually control when everything else is chaos.
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Lazy Fucking Interns
Your team is sending you AI-generated slop and blaming the robot. Here's the actual problem — and it's not the AI.
A month ago, a friend of mine was working through something with a member of his team. He’s a CEO, and this was a strategic...
The Business Case for Giving Things Away
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Thirteen years ago, I wrote about “giving away your Legos” — how important it is to hand off pieces of your job if y...
Diffuse vs. Specific Financial Fear
I still get scared every time I'm facing a risk. The difference now is I know which fears are worth listening to — and which ones are just noise.
One of the questions I get asked a lot (because of my TED talk and all the writing I’ve done...
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Company builder. Lover of weird metaphors. Current work: Host, TED's WorkLife Podcast. Founder, Glue Club & The Guild. Previous work: Facebook, Google, Quip, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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