Fresh Air

Betty Gilpin is seeking anti-algorithm, weird roles – and it's working

I feel like I spent the first decade of my career trying to seem normal and trying to seem palatable and trying to seem like I wasn't too much or too weird or too specific. And I think that the things about myself that I tried to hide are the things that now I'm trying to put at the center of the work.

The Prof G Pod

Will the Real Winners of AI Be Us? Scott Galloway and Ethan Mollick

If you're a middle manager, you get this advantage of a junior person who's desperate to prove themselves, who is willing to work really hard, but isn't very good, but will be. And they write deal memos over and over again, and they get yelled at or given nice feedback, and eventually they learn how to write a deal memo. And that's how we teach people. You don't have to be good at managing for them to learn. Ideally, you're good at teaching, but you don't have to be. But that's all broken down.

Hidden Brain

How to Make a Difference: Part 2

Most people think about doing good in the world in terms of the causes they care about — animal welfare, climate change, poverty. But the choice of cause is only one factor in maximizing your impact. An equally important factor is your choice of career, because this determines how much you can contribute to any cause you care about.

Hidden Brain

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Most of us have been taught that the way to make a difference is to follow your passion. But when researchers studied the most effective altruists — people who are actually doing the most good in the world — they found that passion had little to do with it.

The a16z Show

The Reputation Graph of Silicon Valley | Introducing Cosign

some of the most valuable professional signals aren't credentials, but who believes in you

Hidden Brain

How to Make a Difference: Part 1

Most people think about doing good in terms of the actions they take — the causes they support, the donations they make, the volunteer hours they put in. But researchers who study effective altruism say there's a factor that dwarfs all of these in importance: career choice. The career you choose will determine how much money you have to give, what skills you develop, and what problems you're positioned to solve.

The CEO Signal

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Making Bets & Building a US Flag Carrier | The CEO Signal

I say to people sometimes the biggest mistake that most people make in their career is never making a big mistake because they never take a chance. Um and if you just wait for sure things you basically never do anything. You don't ever make any big mistakes but you never do anything big.

Fresh Air

Best Of: ‘Wonder Man’ actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II / John Coltrane centennial

I keep on getting laid off and losing jobs. What up with that? But you know, every time I do, it turns into something better. You know what I mean? So I wonder what this one gonna turn into.

Office Hours

Scott Galloway: “Enjoy Your 20s” Is a Lie. Here’s Why | Office Hours

Just statistically, and I can prove this to you, 50% of the time in your career you were overpaid, and 50% you were underpaid. And almost 0% of the time was it calibrated exactly?

The Prof G Pod

Your 20s Decide If You’ll Get Rich | Office Hours

I find that the key to getting a job is how social you are. Study done at Google. They put out a job opening 200 CVs within like 60 minutes. They shut it down. They bring in the 20 best candidates and 70% of the time the person they end up hiring has an internal advocate.

Prof G Pod – Office Hours

Your 20s Decide If You’ll Get Rich | Office Hours

70% of the time the person they end up hiring has an internal advocate. So, one, a boss, if you're in your 50s, it doesn't matter if you're in your 50s or your 20s. The advice we would give your 22-year-old self, you got to make a bunch of calls.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani

I hadn't relied on those comedic chops in a long time. So to lean into that was something that felt new and fresh again for me, especially this late in my career, where the idea of doing a half-hour comedy was a challenge. I wanted to see if I could do it more than anything.

The Prof G Pod

Scott Galloway: Why I Moved to Europe | Office Hours

When you're in your income earning years, I find the US is still the best place. People in the US start from a position of yes. How do we how do we make money together? How do we do stuff together? And Europe is the best place to spend it.

Book of the Day

Colson Whitehead on 'Cool Machine,' the final in his Harlem Trilogy series

There's no pension plan for a safe cracker. He doesn't have like a an IRA or 401k. What's next for him?

Office Hours

Is an MBA Still Worth the Debt? Scott Galloway Breaks Down the Numbers | Office Hours

You're never going to have as dense an opportunity or human capital pool as the one you're going to have in graduate school. smart, talented young people who are all looking to better themselves.

Book of the Day

'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New York

My generation was told that we could have it all. And that meant that you could have a career, a successful career and children and a family and a home. But sometimes I feel like perhaps the men weren't told that. And so the society wasn't told that.

Compound Interest

Anthony Pompliano Thinks You're Smarter Than Your Financial Advisor

You can drastically outperform the advice coming from somebody whose job is to not get fired.

The Business of Tech

From Uber to Exaba: AJ Tills takes on Big Tech storage

if I reverse engineering my career, it's really been about normalizing disruptive technologies to make them more understood and to drive that mass adoption.

TED

The Fleeting Euphoria of Success | Debbie Millman | TED

You have to be really careful when you reach that peak, as it's always cold, you're often alone, and there's only one direction to go. And it occurred to me right then and there that I didn't want to peak until the day before I die.

TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Karp on AI, Job Loss, and the Future of Work

There there are two ways to know you have a future one you have some vocational training okay or two you're neurodivergeant