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Emotion Can Get You Far In This Life

Emotion Can Get You Far In This Life

You are not neutral; people experience you every day.
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Trust the Process, Even If There Are Weeds

Trust the Process, Even If There Are Weeds

Don’t cancel the plan just because things are ugly right now.
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Mike Curtis
Before E=mc², He Worked at a Desk

Before E=mc², He Worked at a Desk

Confronting the seduction of status.
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Lead the Team Inside You

Lead the Team Inside You

A fresh take on a well-known system for making tough personal decisions.
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Field Guide: How to Not Micromanage but Still Help the Work Succeed

Field Guide: How to Not Micromanage but Still Help the Work Succeed

Hard-earned lessons from someone learning it the hard way.
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I Never Thought These 7 Words Would Haunt Me for This Long

I Never Thought These 7 Words Would Haunt Me for This Long

I can’t hear them without feeling the sting of time I can never get back.
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When Letting Go Feels Like Losing Everything

When Letting Go Feels Like Losing Everything

Only to find something greater in return.
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The Overlooked Trick to Becoming a Genuinely Interested Person

The Overlooked Trick to Becoming a Genuinely Interested Person

How to be less boring by borrowing from a journalist’s toolkit.
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Mike Curtis
To Those Using AI: Hold on to Your Wonder Anyway

To Those Using AI: Hold on to Your Wonder Anyway

Perfection is not the point. Possibility is.
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Mike Curtis
Go There — Work Needs More Humanity

Go There — Work Needs More Humanity

And I think we’re starving because of it.
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Mike Curtis
The Doubt About Your Doubt About Your Doubt

The Doubt About Your Doubt About Your Doubt

Welcome to recursive doubt phenomenon and the mess inside our heads.
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5 Strategies for Upleveling Your Design Career in this Crazy AI World

5 Strategies for Upleveling Your Design Career in this Crazy AI World

Your job isn’t ending. It’s evolving.
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The Distance Between Us: Confronting the Gap Between Family Expectations and Reality

The Distance Between Us: Confronting the Gap Between Family Expectations and Reality

Open doors, empty driveways.
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Let Them Paint the Walls

Let Them Paint the Walls

The hidden costs of suppressing natural talents.
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Bearing Witness to the Pain of Others

Bearing Witness to the Pain of Others

Extracting career lessons from my mom’s darkest hour.
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Your Professional Superpowers Are Gathering Dust

Your Professional Superpowers Are Gathering Dust

Converting the buried treasures you already possess.
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It Took 8+ Years for Medium to Notice My Writing

It Took 8+ Years for Medium to Notice My Writing

Keep going. You’re having more of an impact than you know.
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Why An Experience-Driven Mindset Could Be Your Best Career Move Yet

Why An Experience-Driven Mindset Could Be Your Best Career Move Yet

This short read might change everything for you.
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The Invisible Switch: Parenting, Working, and Somehow Staying Afloat

The Invisible Switch: Parenting, Working, and Somehow Staying Afloat

Our amazing strength to continue when we have nothing left.
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What My Son’s Broken Toe Taught Me About Life’s Natural Feedback Loop

What My Son’s Broken Toe Taught Me About Life’s Natural Feedback Loop

Resisting the urge for an immediate fix.
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The Unexpected Souvenir: What a Samurai Game Taught Me About Creating Meaningful UX

The Unexpected Souvenir: What a Samurai Game Taught Me About Creating Meaningful UX

Becoming artists of experience.
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You Never Know Who Knows Someone

You Never Know Who Knows Someone

And how integrity can 10x your career.
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Nobody Believed Me Until I Threw Up In Front of Them

Nobody Believed Me Until I Threw Up In Front of Them

Why does our pain only matter once it becomes a spectacle?
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Mike Curtis
These Lesser-Value Questions Might Be Harming Your Career

These Lesser-Value Questions Might Be Harming Your Career

And how to ask higher-value questions instead.
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The Human-Factor 50: Design with the Human in Mind

The Human-Factor 50: Design with the Human in Mind

A cheat sheet of foundational product psychology.
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Mike Curtis
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