When To Do What You Love

There's some debate about whether it's a good idea to "follow your passion." In fact the question is impossible to answer with a simple yes or no.…

People pay you for doing what they want, not what you want. But there's an obvious exception: when you both want the same thing. For example, if…

Whereas if you're young and good at technology, your unconscious instincts about what would be interesting to work on are very well aligned with what…

You don't necessarily need a job doing x in order to work on x; often you can just start doing it in some form yourself. And since figuring out…

Whereas if you choose work you're genuinely interested in, you'll be surrounded mostly by other people who are genuinely interested in it, and that…

Notes [ 1 ] These examples show why it's a mistake to assume that economic inequality must be evidence of some kind of brokenness or unfairness. It's…