by Tim Parkins | Dec 8, 2024
Career Curveballs? Here’s How To Hit Them Out Of The Park Once upon a time, the path to career success was as predictable as the sunrise. You went to school, got a high-quality education in a specific field, and then secured a job where that knowledge was your golden ticket to a long, stable career. Information was scarce, but with it came an abundance of certainty. Your degree was not just a piece of paper; it was a map to a career journey with well-defined checkpoints. But here we are, in a…
by Tim Parkins | Dec 8, 2024
Career Curveballs? Here’s How To Hit Them Out Of The Park Once upon a time, the path to career success was as predictable as the sunrise. You went to school, got a high-quality education in a specific field, and then secured a job where that knowledge was your golden ticket to a long, stable career. Information was scarce, but with it came an abundance of certainty. Your degree was not just a piece of paper; it was a map to a career journey with well-defined checkpoints. But here we are, in a…
by Tim Parkins | Dec 1, 2024
Why You Should Embarrass Yourself More Often Yet another great article by a literal rocket scientist, Ozan Varol. In this article, Ozan talks about the difficulty involved in getting a new project (like a rocket!) off the ground. Any time that you are trying to do something new, something outside your domain of established expertise, something that is forcing you to stretch and grow; it is going to feel slow. For people that are accustomed to being high-performers, having to go slow is hard….
by Tim Parkins | Nov 24, 2024
The Identity Crisis of Work: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times The world of work is in a full-blown identity crisis. AI is disrupting everything, the economy’s in flux, and institutions we’ve relied on for decades are crumbling. Sure, it’s chaotic. But panic or sitting idle won’t cut it. These are exciting and uncertain times, but it also means a wealth of opportunity for those willing to embrace the uncertainty and change. We’re naturally built to evolve—to adapt slowly over time to meet…
by Tim Parkins | Nov 17, 2024
The 3 Hardest Words To Say (and Why They’re So Powerful) We’ve all heard the saying, “Knowledge is power.” But in my experience, there’s even more power in three other small words that many people struggle to say: “I don’t know.” Why is admitting this so difficult? For one, our egos get in the way. We’re conditioned to believe that our worth is tied to how much we know, how capable we appear, or how valuable we are to others. While expertise has its place, the ego often whispers, “You’ll look…
