Brodetskyi. Tech, VC, Startups | Interesting thoughts on work and career: https://www.theatlantic.com/n...

Interesting thoughts on work and career: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/... Work is too big a thing to not take seriously. But it is too small a thing to take too seriously. ... Even if you don’t quit your employer, you should constantly look to quit your job—the precise set of roles for which you are salaried—and push yourself into discomfort zones. Role-switching is important not because quitting is so wonderful, but rather because sampling from different skills and fields is helpful, provided that you’re prepared to pounce on an area that clicks for you. Explore, then exploit.... Don’t take the job you want to talk about at parties for a couple of minutes a month. Take the job you want to do for hundreds of hours a year.... Be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you value—and how much professional success matters to you.Being stuck in the middle is agony: to be ambitious overall but uninterested in going above and beyond at work, or to be unambitious by nature and yet feel pressured to become a full-on workist. People are happiest when their life is aligned with their identity.... artists and other professionals feel happiest when their “body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”The best kind of work is voluntary: It’s something you choose to do rather than accomplish under the imminent threat of poverty or getting fired....flow doesn’t come from doing easy things over and over again. It comes from tasks that reside at the edge of our potential. So don’t be afraid to do hard things.