Confessions of a Juggling Club President: Finding Your Place in College How to make the most of your college experience, avoid being lonely, and why you should prioritize professors over class subjects Confession Time: I was the President of the Juggling Club When I stepped onto campus at Brigham Young University as an 18-year-old […]
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Should You Go to College? Maybe Not. The value of college varies by person, here’s a framework to consider Every year in the US, 20M students attend college classes. That’s 8% of all adults in the US! 14M attend undergraduate courses, 4M in graduate courses, and 2M in other courses. So many college students!
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A Letter to Our Children How to be more deliberate at leaving something lasting for your children What Do You Wish Your Parents Did? What relics do you have from your childhood? Here’s what I have: 3 Beanie Babies POG collection, including metal slammers An album of burned CDs (I always named them ‘Jason’s
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Everyone is Struggling, Including Your Coworkers A story of struggling with loss and starting a new job + lessons learned on how to be more empathetic RIP Spencer Murdoch I had just started a new job. This always involves a steep learning curve, self-imposed pressure and expectations, extracurricular work such as signing up for
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Wooden Shoes vs. Silken Slippers What we can learn from Genghis Khan, Google’s CEO, and Kobe Bryant about when to “step on the gas” vs. “take it easy” The Thing that Worried Genghis Khan… According to legend, nearing the end of his life, the great Genghis Khan, founder of the largest empire in history, took
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Finding “Point Z” Too many of us simply “take the best offer” in our careers. This isn’t a terrible strategy, except for the fact that it risks delaying (potentially for years) what we really want. My First “Big Boy” Job Offer August 2012 was perhaps one of the single most important months of my life.
My Crazy Teaching Moment On an exceptionally cold April day back in 2019 I was at work and got a call from Brigham Young University (BYU). I taught there as an adjunct professor just one semester per year in an exceptionally fun class I had developed for MBA students called Storytelling with Data. On the
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Every Friday @ 5:30pm I do the exact same thing. I open up Apple Notes and read through my “Task Backlog”. My “Task Backlog” is really just my list of items that I need to get done someday. Some things are urgent (ex: that email I need to send next week), others are more long
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When I was an Impostor Engineer… One of the things that surprises people most when they learn about my past education + work experience is when they discover that I used to be an engineer. I don’t come across as having much of an “engineering personality” according to friends. If you had told me in
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Have you ever been in a job where you’ve wanted nothing more than to walk out the door and never come back? Most people have been (or will be) there at least once. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with leaving a role that clearly isn’t a good fit. But doing it in the wrong way can come
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