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When work stops working: you're successful on paper, but suspect work can’t deliver what it promised. Here, we're exploring meaning, identity, and ambition without the hustle-guru nonsense.

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Start Here (when work stops working)

I write for the person who did everything right: built the career, hit the milestones, collected the titles and the income and the respect of people whose respect you thought mattered. You may have even reached the most envious of all moder...

16 days ago
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Two roads diverged, and I chose the one that takes me forever to explain

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The Way of Work is a newsletter for mid-career professionals who are successful on paper, but suspect work can’t deliver what it promised. This is part of the series, Ho...

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I helped build a billion-dollar company. Now I’m a nobody.

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This refrigerator saved me from chasing drugs. Chasing prestige? Well…

The Way of Work is a newsletter for mid-career professionals who are successful on paper, but sus...

3 months ago
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Why I didn’t write another self-help essay and wrote a novel instead


The Way of Work is a newsletter for mid-career professionals who are successful on paper, but suspect work can’t deliver what it promised. This is part of the series, How to Be Irrelevant: on creativity and identity after the hunger...

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The best work is work you’d pay to do


The Way of Work is a newsletter for mid-career professionals who are successful on paper, but suspect work can’t deliver what it promised. This is part of the series, How to Be Irrelevant: on creativity and identity after the hunger...

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    Used to be a Pretty Big Deal. Now I'm a writer? Essays on meaning, identity, ambition without the hustle-guru nonsense. My debut novel comes out soon.

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