Category Archives: Business

Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put by Kurt Armstrong [Shared]

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put by Kurt Armstrong Let’s say time comes to gut and renovate your bathroom: I can help you with that—demolition, framing, reworking the plumbing, moving some electrical, … Continue reading →

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The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom The 4 Types of Luck In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty. In it, Dr. Austin proposed that … Continue reading →

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Start with the Jar: How to understand your capacity via Turtle’s Pace [Shared]

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

Start with the Jar: How to understand your capacity via Turtle’s Pace Optimism is dangerous, especially when it comes to planning our goals. If we underestimate the effort of an endeavor, we set ourselves up for failure. When we fail … Continue reading →

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How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate [Shared]

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate 1. Read staggering amounts, regularly returning to the classics both fiction and non-fiction.  2. Write your own notes of your daily learnings aiming for super concise summaries. In that way you … Continue reading →

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Be A Thermostat, Not A Thermometer via Lara Hogan [Shared]

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

Be A Thermostat, Not A Thermometer via Lara Hogan [Shared] As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. … Continue reading →

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Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian [Shared]

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian “A great interview does something else, too. A great touches the nucleus of being and potential, untouched by the forces of time and change. One … Continue reading →

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Overwhelm: The Survival Guide by Leo Babauta [Shared]

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Douglas E. Welch

Overwhelm: The Survival Guide by Leo Babauta Feeling overwhelmed with work and personal tasks is one of the biggest problems that the people I work with are facing. It turns out, our lives can be pretty overwhelming. There’s so much to … Continue reading →

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Managing people 🤯via Andreas Klinger [Shared]

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Douglas E. Welch

Managing people 🤯 | Andreas Klinger Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees as they learn how to manage groups of people. If this advice helps avoid a few cases, … Continue reading →

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On interviews…via TikTok from the Career Opportunities Podcast [Video]

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Douglas E. Welch

@douglaswelch On interviews…from Career Opportunities ##career ##work ##job ##interviewing ##jobsearch ##stress ##tip ##education ♬ original sound – Douglas E. Welch   * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs** Many of these books may be available … Continue reading →

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On Pricing Yourself from Career Opportunities via TIkTok [Video]

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Douglas E. Welch

Good call looking for salary comparisons. Do not underprice yourself, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel. — Douglas @douglaswelch ##stitch with @mirandathehybrid Good call looking for salary comparisons. Do not underprice yourself, no matter how uncomfortable it may feel. … Continue reading →

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