An early January batch of links
Welcome to a new year! Thus begins year number four of this newsletter; I believe I did my best thinking and writing in Year 3, so I’m looking not to top it, rather to repeat it, with better curation from another year of wisdom under my belt.
This time around with the batch of links, I’m hoping to add an audio component as often as I feel I can add something worthwhile with the batch of links.
Since the most recent batch of links went out, paying subscribers received a meditation on professional training, then a summary of what I’m bringing with me from 2024. This coming weekend, they’ll enjoy my list of what it takes to create a lasting book club.
Below, you’ll find a batch of links that represent the foundation of this newsletter, which is career building, community development, and self care.
Want a Raise in 2025? Start Your Wins List Now.
Keeping notes can help you stand out, especially at a time when companies are keeping raises in check, thinning the ranks of managers and offering fewer promotions. If the idea of regularly documenting sounds daunting, or just too tedious, think of it as quick journal entries of accomplishments, feedback and experiences. You can use a spreadsheet, your phone’s notes app or specialized apps made for workplace documentation. The goal is to have specific details on hand to prove your worth.
The morning rituals tech billionaires swear have led to their success.
How to make it to the corner office in 2025: A checklist for up-and-comers. Some very good advice here for those with ambition to grow within an organization. Not everyone is built that way, and they’ll declare that little of this is worth it. The people who will be rewarded will do all of it on top.
7 Ways To Have More Energy In 2025.
Unemployed Office Workers Are Having a Harder Time Finding New Jobs. This stat tracks with what I’ve heard. Very few people in the second half of 2024 were letting me know they were finding any traction. The new norm has been to take whatever part-time work you can find. I am not optimistic that this month will be any better, despite what recruiters are telling vulnerable people.
4 compensation trends that hint at what's in store for 2025.
You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill.
Every time I turn on a podcast, I am informed about a meal-kit company that, if I use the promo code, will give me free dessert for life. They all promise the same thing: that dinner could be painless, if I let it. I could have it all, my dinner and my sanity.
This simple tip to building wealth may seem obvious — but it’s life-changing.
I asked a millennial, Gen Xer and baby boomer for their best money tips for young people today. I love the casting of this story. More stories should pull from various categories of people, at various stages of their financial journies. The context matters for why their opinion sits where it does.
Pro-Eating Disorder Communities Find New Spaces Online.
Home equity could fuel a massive wealth transfer in the coming years. “Those children may not even want the house, she said, “with all that junk in it, and they’ve got to figure out what to do.” This is something that’d coming up with one of our portfolio companies, that the expectation of what the next generation will want isn’t what it turns out they want.
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
Gen Z Workers Are More Stressed, Depressed – and Need Support Now. “Plus, the gap between this younger generation and Baby Boomers – the healthiest generation at work, according to the survey – is now more pronounced than ever: a 26-percentage point difference in holistic health.” So once the boomers retire, we will have to grapple with a dip in morale at every company in America?
Is Makeup Becoming Less Impulse Purchase-worthy?
JPMorgan Planning to Bring Staff Back to Office Five Days a Week. This remains the wrong casting for these announcements: “The move would mark a return to pre-pandemic expectations for one of Wall Street’s biggest names, while some rivals continue to allow more flexibility for their staff.” We should never presume anything is a regression, always reflect how it’s a progression. Choosing an office now can be based on data from the past year, not a fallback on an old style.