This is another one that’s somewhat painful to archive. I wrote this when I was a cocky 30-something in the first blush of career success. There’s a lot of stuff here that I’m no longer sure I really believe, now that I'm a more grizzled 40-something. Nevertheless a lot of this is pretty good, so I’ll let you pick through it and evaluate it with your own bullshit-meter.
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Part 1: Don’t Confuse Your Goals With Your Strategies
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Part 2: Stockpile Your Work Until Everyone Is Telling You That You’re Ready
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Part 3: They Can’t Buy You, They Can Only Buy Your Material
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Part 4: Favors Are Serious Business
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Part 5: Be Necessary
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Part 6: Only Worry About the Quality of Your Own Work
- What I Wish I’d Heard At Graduation, Part 7: Be Ridiculously Professional
- What I Wish I’d Heard At Graduation, Part 8: Your Best Connections Are Outside Your Profession
- What I Wish I’d Heard At Graduation, Part 9: You Can't Pay Your Dues Until After You’ve “Made It”
- What I Wish I’d Heard At Graduation, Part 10: Stay Out of Fantasy Camp
- What I Wish I’d Heard At Graduation, Part 11: The Better You Get, the Less Intuitive the Work Is
- What I Wish I’d Heard At Graduation, Finale: Knowledge Shrinks, Experience Grows
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Addendum: Would You Hire You?
- What I Wish I'd Heard at Graduation, Addendum: Underpromise and Overdeliver
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Addendum: Be Amazed By Success
- What I Wish I'd Heard At Graduation, Addendum: Every Celebrity Has the Same Personality
- What I Wish I’d Heard at Graduation, Two Final Caveats
- What I Wish I’d Heard at Graduation, Addendum: You Sometime Have to Work on Projects You Hate (And it Might Be “Your” Project)
- What I Wish I'd Heard at Graduation, Addendum: Don't Blow It
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