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Why are we lying to young people about work?
Some real talk here about the nature of work, and whatâs important:
Good work should do at least one of these things: fund the life you actually want to live, align with values you can defend at dinner parties, surround you with people who challenge you to grow, or teach you skills that compound like interest over decades. Great work does several of these at once. But work doesnât have to feel like play, and you sure as hell donât have to love every minute of it.
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Here is how I approach starting a new job
Elena Verna has some really good tips for ramping up in a new job in this post:
If you over-index on action, youâll likely misfire because youâre missing context. But if you over-index on just learning, youâll create anxiety and unmet expectations around you. Itâs a tough balance to strike. Assuming you are learning at max velocity, here is how I deal with âtake actionâ part: start with protecting whatâs already working, move onto quick wins, go after big bets, and finish with the strategy.
I am inclined to move the strategy piece up (see my post about product strategy) and work on that before âbig betsâ so that you can build confidence that you know what the product is, who the users are, and how it makes money. Small quibbles about the order of things aside, I agree with all the details!
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Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
Some of the charts here are a little hard to parse, but this is pretty incredible.
In the top panel, you can see that in the 1960s, only around 14% of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia survived at least five years. Despite initially improving upon treatment, most relapsed and died soon after. By the 2010s, the chances of survival had increased dramatically: 94% of children survived at least five years.
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