2.5 billion blog posts are published every year.

But let's be honest, most of them are garbage.

Here are 8 that will make you smarter today👇
"6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person"

Ignore the click baity title and read this 2012 gem.

1 Quote:

"Either you will go see to those needs by learning a unique set of skills, or the world will reject you, no matter how inoffensive and courteous you are."
"Why Procrastinators Procrastinate"

by @waitbutwhy

Get ready for the Instant Gratification Monkey, Panic Monster and the Dark Playground.

1 Graphic:
"The World's Worst Boss"

by @ThisIsSethsBlog

Hint: You know this person very well.
"@pmarca Guide to Career Planning"

It answers this question:

How can I dominate my career?

1 Thread of takeaways:

How to be Successful"

by @sama

I've read this monthly for a year.

1 Quote:

"Add another zero to whatever you define as your success metric—money, status, impact on the world."
"How to Write Usefully"

by @paulg

When a great writer teaches you how to write better, you listen.

1 Quote:

"Useful writing tells people something true and important that they didn't already know, and tells them as unequivocally as possible."
"The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now"

by @tferiss

Written in 2007 but still applicable today.

1 Quote:

"Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting."
"How Will You Measure Your Life"

by Clayton Christensen

He wrote famous book The Innovator's Dilemma.

1 Quote:

"If you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited."
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13 Jun
"Career planning is for losers."
- Marc Andreesen (probably)

I read 10,000 words of career advice from @pmarca.

Here are 10 lessons👇
Rule 1: Don't plan your career.

The world is changing too fast.

Impossible to plan when you can't predict the future.

Career planning = Career limiting
Treat your career as an investment portfolio.

Need both safe and risky investments with different returns (or benefits).

Risky = 5 person startup

Safe = Facebook as the millionth employee

Different investments are better for different times.
Read 15 tweets
11 Jun
Joe turned his $600 annual salary into a $600 billion empire.

Here's the crazy story👇
Joe Tsai was born in January 1964 in Taipei, Taiwan.

His Dad was a lawyer and the 1st Taiwanese person to receive a degree from Yale Law.
His family leaves Taiwan and he enrolls at a US boarding school called Lawrenceville.

He goes to Yale undergrad and then earns a Yale Law degree.
Read 19 tweets
7 Jun
Can't get a job at Facebook?

You can always sell your startup to Zuckerberg for $19 billion.

Here's the crazy story of WhatsApp👇
Jan Koum met Brian Acton in 1998.

They spent 9 years working together at Yahoo and became good friends.

But in 2007, they both left Yahoo with some cash and no plans.
At first Acton and Koum applied to Facebook

...and failed

they were proud members of the "Facebook reject club"
Read 19 tweets
3 Jun
Frameworks are useless...

Unless you use them to solve specific problems.

Here are 10 frameworks that'll solve problems for you:
How to choose your next project:

If a project is successful, it should make the rest of your career look like a footnote.

@sama
How to write:

Your creativity is a backed-up pipe of waste water.

And the waste water must be emptied before you get to clear water.

The path to clear water (or great writing) is through bad first drafts.

@julian
Read 12 tweets
28 May
I just graduated from Yale and realized how much more there is to learn.

But I did uncover 7 lies you've been told about the world.

Here's the truth🧵
Lie:

The information you learn in school matters.

Truth:

Learning to learn is more important than any subject you study.
Lie:

Networking is about collecting as many business cards as possible.

Truth:

You can attract interesting people to you by sharing here on Twitter.

Once you do, developing these relationships is the most important thing you can do.
Read 10 tweets
25 May
I interviewed someone who told Steve Jobs he was wrong and got promoted.

She then built early smartphone companies worth billions.

Here's what I learned from Donna Dubinsky:
Be 100% focused on the person you're with.

• Don't think about what is next
• Don't think about what you just did

Just listen intently and magic happens.
Make a personal balance sheet of strengths and weaknesses

• What am I good at?
• What do I enjoy doing?
• What are my weaknesses?

Those are the answers for what to do in your career.
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