Follow your passion» is the carpe diem of career advice. Nice, and meaningless. This short essay argues for a different guiding principle: «Follow your blisters». Ask yourself: «What kind of work do I find myself coming back to again and again, even when I don’t succeed right away?

From Weekly Filet #329, in December 2020.

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