How to Build a Meaningful Career
summary
Says a meaningful career comes from deliberate choices not vague passion and gives concrete, repeatable things: the luck formula opportunity + preparedness, the hard number that people spend a third of their life at work, a real open source artificial pancreas that runs today, a Palm Pilot diabetes app from early days, using PHP/Laravel to land a high salary, and a recovery strategy—took a sabbatical to rebuild energy before job hunting.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:56Meaning in career building
- 3:40Career milestones and luck
- 8:41Self-care and rest
- 10:26Career setbacks and lessons
- 14:03Intentional career journey
- 16:52Money as career goal
- 20:45Passion in work
- 23:57Recalibrating career direction
- 27:46Grit and resilience
- 28:27Unknowns in a 40-year career
- 31:15Credit to those in the arena
- 34:01Plans versus goals
- 37:53Meaning in work and community
- 38:17Homework and closing
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