Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.

The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: 2/ I can’t stress this one enough: avoid chasing the red herrings of success.

I worry that in pushing everyone to “build in public” we’ve created a kind of announcement economy…one in which you can receive the same funding, attention, dopamine hits, by announcing an _intention_ to build something…as you can by simply shipping something excellent.

For LOST IN STAGNATION, the first of many @WorksInProgMag / @stripepress collaborations, I interviewed J. Storrs Hall, author of ‘Where is My Flying Car’ to talk about stagnation and the possibility of progress: worksinprogress.co/issue/intervie…

https://twitter.com/ns_whit/status/1580193319455379457

The proximate cause of stagnation (or, put a different way, of wtf happened in 1971)? In a word, energy.

1/ 2.5 yrs ago I visited @stripe’s library (TY, @pioneerdotapp!).

I walked away with more books than I could carry (TY, @sashadem!) and an instant love for @stripepress—so it’s a bit surreal to announce today that I’m switching gears @stripe to become its commissioning editor. 2/ Stripe Press’s mission was a core reason why I joined Stripe. *Ideas* are the seeds of great companies and great institutions, and excellent ones should be widely available—particularly to high-agency, fiercely curious individuals around the world.