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Richard (Microsoft to Cranium)

Andrew Chen — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:42:19 +0000

This interview is with Richard Tait, co-creator of the board game Cranium, which won the Toy Industry Association’s “Game of the Year” award five times in six years, and sold to Hasbro Toys in 2008. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Golazo energy drinks. The interview was conducted by Andrew Chen and summarized by J. del Fierro. Q. How has your career unfolded and taken you to your current role as co-founder of Golazo energy drinks? A. I’d love to tell you it was strategic, but that hasn’t been the way it unfolded for me. It’s often a door that closes that leads to [...]

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Ang Lee, on pursuing the dream (after his 2006 Oscar win)

Andrew Chen — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:57:47 +0000

Following Ang Lee’s recent best director Oscar for “Life of Pi,” an essay he wrote in 2006 after winning the same award for “Brokeback Mountain” re-surfaced on the web and has been shared by many friends and colleagues. It’s a tremendously inspirational story of what it means to struggle, self-doubt, nurture, draw inner strength, persevere, love, and dream. For anyone who is in the business of creating something from nothing — whether you’re an artist, writer, entrepreneur, inventor — hopefully this will be uplifting to you. Translated text: In 1978, as I applied for film studies at the University of Illinois, my [...]

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Roger (college to tech entrepreneur)

Andrew Chen — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:38:59 +0000

It’s when you take that leave of absence or quit your job to focus on the startup full-time that it becomes real. - Roger Lee, president at PaperG

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Rey (teacher to social entrepreneur)

Andrew Chen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:37:33 +0000

"I believe energy begets energy, positivity begets positivity. Small wins really lead to other things." - Rey Faustino, One Degree

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Crafting a career out of chaos with a liberal arts degree

Andrew Chen — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:29:02 +0000

This interview is with Katharine Brooks, Director of the Office of Liberal Arts Career Services at The University of Texas at Austin. Tell me about your career path. How has your career unfolded into your current role as the Director of Liberal Arts Career Services at the University of Texas? My career is a perfect example of chaos theory at work. I wish I could tell you that I planned it out but I didn’t. I started college as a music major. I switched to sociology (and probably took enough courses in English and Art History for minors, but the college didn’t have [...]

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Peter Sims (investor to entrepreneur)

Andrew Chen — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:00:02 +0000

"Little Bets is really about what I learned in my 30s as I was figuring out what to do with my life." - Peter Sims, author

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If you’re not reading (a lot), you’re not love-driven

Andrew Chen — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:00:42 +0000

I recently had a thought-provoking conversation with a UX designer friend. We were talking about what motivates long-term high personal achievement. He made an observation that struck me. “Personal change and achievement can start with fear-driven motivation,” he said. “It can turn into will-driven motivation. But it can only sustain itself by being love-driven.” This got me thinking about how aptly this applies to distinctive people who outperform in their fields sustainably over the long-term. Many high performers are will-driven. And they can succeed by being that way for a period of time, sometimes even for many years. But sooner or later, people [...]

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Sheila (college to entertainment news)

Andrew Chen — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:38:26 +0000

"The beauty of entertainment is that you’re helping people have fun during their day." - Sheila Marikar, ABCNews.com

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So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Andrew Chen — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:13:35 +0000

A couple weeks ago a friend of mine recommended the new book by Cal Newport, “So Good They Can’t Ignore You,” which argues that the best and most satisfying careers are those where your passion for the job emerges only after you’ve developed distinctive skills for it — because distinctive skills enable you to do that job with autonomy and impact, which are the only lasting sources of career satisfaction. Cal argues that, contrary to public wisdom that you should “find your passion first” and then search for a career to match that passion, very few people actually have career-related [...]

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Adarsh (McKinsey to Rails developer)

Andrew Chen — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:12:21 +0000

"Part of job satisfaction is knowing that you're doing a really good job." - Adarsh Pandit, thoughtbot

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