by Tim Denning | Oct 24, 2022 | Startups
Will you be my mentor, sir? I get this multiple times a day. When you’ve had any tiny success on the internet it’s a common question. We love mentors. The business world teaches us to seek them out. Startup unicorns brag about how they had Bill Gates or Arianna...
by Tim Denning | Oct 24, 2022 | Startups
Not everyone wants to quit their job and live the laptop lifestyle. I was that guy for years. The appeal of entrepreneurship meant nothing to me. I liked the snug fit of corporate life. I started at the bottom of the corporate ladder in an entry-level job, working for...
by Tim Denning | Oct 10, 2022 | Success
Once you become institutionalized, the corporate ladder is all you know. You get trapped in a bubble. Some extremists call it living inside the corporate Matrix. I’m not as harsh as that as I got brainwashed by the corporate world, too. This led me to climb fast up...
by Tim Denning | Oct 3, 2022 | Startups
Managers are dead. Quiet managers are taking over. It’s a new class of leaders made popular by LinkedIn guru Adam Broda. The whole philosophy is counter-intuitive and shakes up everything we’ve always known about leading humans to greatness. Quiet managers don’t care...
by Tim Denning | Sep 26, 2022 | Startups
The trend right now is to quiet quit or old-fashion quit a job. Millions of people are rethinking their careers. The definition of work is changing. And people are wondering, is this all there is? A reader asked me “what was the moment that made you decide to throw it...
