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Be A Volunteer

April 24, 2022 by tig

Once you get to the point in your career where you realize a) you’ll be just fine financially (because your resume kicks ass), b) your company doesn’t give a sh*t about you, and c) you know what the Right Thing to do is, act like a volunteer.

Categories Career Tags bold, career, leadership, principles, volunteer Leave a comment

Friday was my last day at Amazon

March 16, 2023April 30, 2018 by tig

The goodbye mail to the Alexa Smart Home team explains it all pretty well: Date: Apr 27, 2018 3:03 PM Subject: Smart Home Org Update Team, With mixed emotions I share the news that Charlie Kindel … Read more

Categories Kindel, Skiing Tags amazon, career 10 Comments

Merit Badges – A Mental Model for Success

November 1, 2025April 1, 2018 by tig

The concept of a Merit Badge comes from the Boy Scouts. The idea is that a scout can only earn a particular merit badge (actually a patch that gets sewn onto a vest) by demonstrating mastery … Read more

Categories Career, Clarity of Thought, Leadership, Mental Models, Organization & People Tags career, career growth, growth, mentoring, merit badge, success 6 Comments

Find Work That Does Not Feel Like Work

January 30, 2021March 24, 2014 by tig

The first thing I ask people who are looking for a new job is “What work do you want to do in your ideal job?” It is interesting how few people answer this question. Almost everybody … Read more

Categories Career, Gruntled Tags career, happiness, happy, job, success, work 2 Comments

You are Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong

November 1, 2025April 8, 2012 by tig

Most people think about their career trajectory as being like a bell-curve or that of a cannon ball fired from a cannon. Something like this: For 99% of all successful people, this is completely the wrong … Read more

Categories Career, Clarity of Thought, Gruntled, Leadership, Mental Models, Organization & People, Startups Tags career 15 Comments
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