It’s been a week filled with many meetings, but I want to share two I had this morning at my favorite coffee shop in Cambridge. I met with a current Harvard b-school student who is looking for a job. I then met with a b-school alumnus, who is on his second start-up and was wondering
Category: Career management
You Just Started Your ‘Career’. Now What?
Kait Gaiss has a cool blog. She recently graduated from Duke and is a few months into her career in the Bay Area start-up community. She is very up front about the ups and downs during the transition from college to work. It’s a good read. For me, my early-20s were a weird time. For
‘Life Experiences’
A 13-hour bus ride to Washington D.C. in a blizzard. Nausea amid the stop-and-go traffic. Two-to-a-bed in a hotel room with strangers. Early mornings and late nights. A long bus ride back and arriving back in Boston at midnight. One of our children is out of town for a political protest. This was something our
Your Job and the ‘Cloak of Invisibility’
What if someone gave to you Harry Potter’s Cloak of Invisibility, and, as a result, you would be anonymous in your life? And, the work you do at your job would be invisible to others? No promotions, accolades, no press releases. Would you still be at your same job? I ask this because I recently
The Most Important Question You Can Ask
Moritz Plassnig this morning sent me a great article through a Tweet. It’s called “The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself Today”. It is well worth reading. Author Mark Manson writes: What’s more interesting to me is what pain do you want? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater
Quit a Job and Pursue Your Dream?
There’s a cool article in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about a VC who leaves work to pursue his dream of competing in the Olympics. I think the best paragraph in the article was this one: His…epiphany came after his usual speech to entrepreneurs about following one’s dreams. Lying in his hotel bed, he thought, “I