by Tim Parkins | Jun 23, 2024
Quiet Maverick: How To Secretly Craft A Job You Love Earlier this week, I met with one of my more junior team members to check in with them and see how things were going. During our meeting, he told me he was really enjoying his role on the team and he felt the team was making significant progress. But he also confided that he felt he wasn’t being fully leveraged and that he had more to offer. He expressed a desire to have more opportunities to apply his technical skills and contribute even…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 16, 2024
50+ Timeless Rules For Living An Amazing Life I turned 50 last year, and to celebrate the occasion, my incredible wife took me on a surprise get-away to Quebec City. While we were on the train to get there, the urge to write out some of the life lessons I’d learned over the years struck me. I guess I felt that 50 years was a long enough time that I should have been able to accumulate some wisdom along the way. My 51st birthday was last week, and that reminded me of this list -and that I’d not…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 9, 2024
How To Go From Drowning In Problems To Swimming In Success I’m so tired of people complaining. I get it; there seem to be a lot of things going wrong in the world today. Everything is in chaos, and institutions we used to trust seem to have lost their way. The list of problems feels never-ending; inflation is destroying savings and investments, and people are struggling to buy food multiple wars are happening at a large scale social media and the resulting instant dopamine hit have addicted…
by Tim Parkins | Jun 2, 2024
Today, we’re going to dive in and explore how you’ve likely been tricked into following a path you’ve been told is “safe”, and why this safety is illusory. Let’s go! How To Turn The Dial On Your Career Kaleidoscope Specialization is dead. You’ve been duped. Chances are that your parents and well-meaning people in your life misled you into believing that the path to success in your career was to pick a domain of specialization, become an expert in it, and then work your way up the ladder in…
by Tim Parkins | May 26, 2024
Hey Reader! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 The warmer weather has arrived, and we’ve planted the gardens! It’s a busy time of year, especially this year as we’re expanding our ability to grow more of our own food. While it’s a lot of work, especially during the expansion, it’s also a lot of fun. We all need interesting projects that we can enjoy outside of our work. It’s crucial to maintain an identity outside of what you do for a living. I hope you had an amazing weekend! This week, we’ll explore how making changes…
