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I have been absent! Due to personal priorities that needed to come before work. I did manage to get a quick message out to Lexi Radcliffe-Hart before abandoning cohort5 which I should have been part of. I was with you in spirit, as I actually managed to work some of the modules in between time with family members who needed my presence. I can’t attend this week’s networking but will try to get back into gear with the community from next week. I hope cohort5 was a blast, and thank you Laura Thomas for pinging me a personal message that meant a lot x
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I have just finished Range – why generalists triumph in a specialized world, by David Epstein and after faltering mid-way through at the sheer length of some of the stories (the new defacto American way of writing for this genre) I recovered and loved the book. I can definitely recommend it if you want to understand why you lean towards ’portfolio’ rather than portico (I just coined that). You are on track to becoming a T shaped person / professional and you won’t regret it!
Can I add that Cherry Drops make the world a better place.
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I won a copy from an Instagram competition (random I know!)… so I’m just waiting for it to arrive. Listened to a great podcast on Squiggly Careers with him. Thanks for sharing Sarah – a few others in the group have got it as a result. For me, it’s 92% dark chocolate 🙂
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That’s because you understand sugar so much better than most! x
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Couldn’t agree more, Sarah – it’s a good read – a few long-winded descriptions early on – but am now half way through. Having soaked up Outliers some years ago… and subsequently ignored to an extent (as I didn’t have 10,000 hours to spare… and wasn’t sure what I wanted to master anyway!!) and more recently enjoyed Matthew Syed’s Bounce, this carries along in the same kind of way, pulling interesting examples from many different areas (s…
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This resonates Malcom, and thank you for your thoughts. I have been reading widely for a couple of years to a) discover what I need to be reading and b) to assemble some life and work hacks. One thing I’ve noticed is that the book length doesn’t always denote a lot of material but is more linked to a writing technique that seems to be peculiarly American (Syed, Gladwell, Kahneman etc) – have you noticed it too? (Aside – have you ever considered, or tried, Blinkist as a ha…
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Just a note to say I am missing the build your co, build your website sessions because it is half term and because I’ve done these things before – though forgive me for not being there to support my cohort.
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I would love to also connect with people working in social good – charities, social enterprise, purpose-driven businesses etc. Is there anyone on here connected to that world? Pls ping me and say hello!
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Hi Sarah,
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Have you tried Goodsted: https://www.goodsted.com/ – it is a platform to volunteer to help good causes
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Hi Ben, thanks for signposting this one, it looks good. I’m connected to a lot of volunteer platforms already (and maxed on the volunteering I do!) – I was simply wondering if any of the cohort were working with social purpose organisations so that we caould form a ’tribe’ here on TPC!
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Oh I love this Sarah Hughes – thank you so much for sharing that so wonderfully and well done for working through the modules! I cannot wait to have you back in the community, sending my best to you and yours x