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When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YOU grow your career and influence. Not management, not the company, YOU. This means constantly advocating for ways to grow: subjects to learn, projects with increased scope, and sometimes new teams or companies.

Matt Klein on Twitter: "Last Week I Sat for an Internal Interview About My Career Progression to High Level IC Engineer, With a Focus on How I've Never Felt I Needed to Become a Manager to Gain Influence. I Thought I Would Share Some of My Career Advice for Aspiring IC "Lifers." Thread!" / Twitter

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The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling point: interesting intellectuals can charge money for doing their thing and people who interested in the life of the mind should pay for their output. The Schelling point, the place at which these two groups would choose to meet without any coordination mechanism, was the writer’s Substack.

BAM Is Now Reader-Supported

Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: *Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.* By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach — what he calls nutritionism — and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.

In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan

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