November 2025
- Nov 20, 2025Work SkillsBuilding a Strategic Career PathStandard advice says define your values and goals before moving, but her longitudinal work on reinvention found identity clarity follows action rather than preceding it. Newport's career capital argument points the same way, since engagement tends to follow mastery instead of existing beforehand. The page covers choosing a problem space rather than a job title, finding where you are genuinely top quartile, and the calendar test for whether your stated strategy is real.
- Nov 18, 2025Work SkillsStrategic Long-Term Career PlanningHis Planned Happenstance work named five cultivable attributes that decide who benefits from chance, curiosity, persistence, flexibility, optimism and risk tolerance, and found people who built them outperformed both rigid planners and non-planners. The page illustrates the horizon problem well: planning to be a senior webmaster by 2010 targeted a title that barely survived, while planning to keep learning whatever the web demanded aged fine.
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