An essay turned pamphlet, short enough to reread regularly. Drucker’s advice comes down to knowing yourself well enough to make the right decisions: your strengths, your relationships, and your environment all add up to success or failure. Perhaps the smartest counsel he gives is to start a second career before you’ve completed the first. Less a backup plan than a means of succession.
It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.
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Five principles for embracing uncertainty.
Where to give all your precious fucks.
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