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Table of Contents

• Pull to Eject

• Modern Tools

• Old School Wisdom

• Free Knowledge

• Visual Crapshoot

Pull to Eject

No one is coming to save you from automation, AI advances or corporate job cuts.

Big corporate, big banks, big tech - all trimming overhead.

Watch the jobs reports.

More importantly - read the revisions 3 months later. Actual jobs were revised lower in every single month of 2023.

More than 250,000 of the best tech jobs were slashed last year.

2024 has started with big names already culling more overhead.

Mid February and we already have announcements from Microsoft, Salesforce, eBay, Citigroup, UPS and more.

Over half of workers (55%) say they already have, or are likely to, switch employment models throughout their careers—fluidly moving from permanent full-time jobs through projects on internal talent marketplaces, freelancing, and gig work, for example.

Look in the mirror.

It’s not too late to think about your career portfolio along side your career path.

Taking charge of non-salary income is the way to be prepared for the uncertainty.

Creatives have had a career portfolio concept for generations. Designers, writers, photographers. They were told to share their ‘book.’

Software developers do the same with GitHub.

A career portfolio today can be for any knowledge worker by building their own digital products.

Adding to your career with ‘portfolio’ pieces.

You can start small. Use your knowledge to build a base.

• Create a How To document

• Write an ebook

• Start a podcast

• Create video content

• Become a coach or consultant

If done correctly, each can generate a little money. And give you some energy around 2nd and 3rd income streams.

You don’t have to be fired to build one.

You can spend time trying to understand economic data. Or you can hope the axe doesn’t swing near you.

Or you can become more self-reliant.

No one else is coming.

Now go launch something 🚀 

Modern Tools

Kick your business off on the right foot by working within pre-built templates that your small but mighty team can adapt and scale as the company grows.

Integrate easily with Slack or Confluence (or 150 others), build internal communication into everything your startup does. From projects, to meetings to brainstorming, Trello is a modern freemium platform for your business.

Make Presentations 10x Faster

Say goodbye to manual design & formatting work. Unlock your creativity with Gamma and turn text into beautiful presentations within seconds.

Try for free.

Old School Wisdom

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and investor. He cofounded Y Combinator which has funded over 3000 startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit.

In 2001 he started publishing essays on paulgraham.com, which now gets around 25 million page views per year.

His 2005 essay on writing briefly is a masterclass worth your time.

Free Knowledge

Shaan Puri is a founder, investor, & creator of the My First Million podcast. His side hustles have side hustles and one of my favorites is his Small Boy newsletter.

One of the best case studies Puri has ever covered is Sarah Moore’s startup hustle. The MFM pod interview is fantastic, but the story is online here:

Visual Crapshoot