Tag: career capital

6 posts tagged "career capital".

The stock of rare and valuable skills, relationships, and credentials you accumulate through work — the currency you can later trade for the things people actually want from a career, like autonomy and impact. The term is Cal Newport's, from So Good They Can't Ignore You, where he argues that "follow your passion" is bad advice: passion follows mastery, not the reverse. On this blog career capital is the raw material of optionality — building enough valuable, hard-to-replace skill that you earn leverage over how and where you work, often via deep work and deliberate skill acquisition. It reframes early-career sacrifice as investment, the professional analogue of compound interest.

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The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation

29 Feb, 2020

Video games give you a clear pathway for leveling up into a muscle-bound hero, and impressing scantily-clad elven princesses with your Very Big Sword.
Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven

28 Oct, 2019

‘Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven’ is the unofficial motto of freelancers and entrepreneurs. But escaping the tyranny of work comes at a price. Is it worth it?
Reader Case Study: The 24 Year Old Millionaire

6 Oct, 2017

While I was chuffed with hitting my $100,000 goal, I found out an old school friend had managed to become a millionaire at age 24. Here's how he did it:
Living The 4 Hour Work Week (How Tim Ferriss Created a Monster)

11 Aug, 2017

The 4HWW's unintended legacy is a groundswell of self-loathing in the digital nomad community. What did Tim get right, and which parts have gone rotten?
The Barbell Strategy: How Not to Be a Starving Artist

21 Jul, 2017

Living off ramen in your mom's basement while you wait for your genius business idea or novel to hit the big time is a dead end. It's time to get strategic.