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Can A Philosopher Be A Happy Capitalist?
G.V. Loewen previews his health and wellness startup
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Make Work Work Better For You
Leslie Wang on how to suffer less in academe or beyond it
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Public Thread: Teaching As A Business Skill
During my conversation with Kate Rogers earlier this week, I was struck by her ability to transfer a mentorship ethos from academe to industry.
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How A Psychology Professor Got Hired At Zillow
Kate Rogers on her pivot from academe to industry
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More Than A Chemist
Fawzi Abou-Chahine on his transition from academe to fundraising
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Entrepreneurship As Last-Ditch Adaptation
Dr. James F. Richardson on surviving America's urban individualism
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Searching for an Enduring "Why"
Dr. Leslie Castro-Woodhouse on her pivot from academe to entrepreneurship
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What can you do with a PhD in German?
Jennifer Askey on finding happiness as a career coach
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What do Screaming Frog and film studies have in common?
How a humanities PhD found a new path as an SEO manager
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A psychology PhD's journey from academe to human factors engineering
Ashley Ruba on the value of building abiding relationships online
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The best work is on the B-side
Jennifer Beech on pivoting from literature to instructional design
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Think of your work history as a series of Seinfeld episodes
Eric James Stephens on telling powerful stories in industry
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