Exercise Your Brain Like a Muscle
Even though your brain is an organ rather than a muscle, the practices you set up to strengthen your muscles also work to increase your brain power. My preferred system is: Fuel, Resistance, Rest, Repeat. Fuel In the same way that you’ll “bonk” or “hit the wall” at the end of a marathon if you haven’t […]
5 Ways to Create Value Through a Blog Post
A Praxis participant recently asked me for some tips on how to signal their ability to create value through their writing. More specifically, they wanted to know how to do this without relying on self-help posts that claim to show people the way to enlightenment. As preparation for our advising session, I documented five categories […]
Praxis Talent Profile Breakdown
Throughout the first three months of our bootcamp, Praxis participants focus on building their talent profiles. After many hours of hard work and feedback from our advisors, the profiles are ready to be posted on our talent portal where all of our business partners can review them and connect with apprenticeship candidates of their choice. These profiles are the […]
How to Get Work Done: A Primer
Here are the three pillars of getting work done. If you are having trouble with staying on top of your work, chances are that it comes back to one of these three main areas. This is common advice for our participants as they complete their challenging apprenticeships at growing startups. 1. Know what you need to […]
Your Problem is You Don’t Have Enough Problems
The more action you want to take, the more solutions you want to gain, the more you want to achieve, the more problems you’ve gotta have. Problems lead to questions, questions lead to discovery, discovery leads to progress.
2 MORE reasons not to go to college
We’ve written on the Praxis blog a number of times about why you should rethink college. One of our most popular articles, by Praxis CEO Isaac Morehouse, makes among other points the case that college no longer signals what it used to and that most people have no idea what they want out of the […]
5 Skills I Acquired Working at a Tech Startup
The following is a repost from the blog of Praxis participant Nicholas Kleinhuizen. A couple of months ago, my life drastically changed. I went from being a college dropout who lived at home to working at a tech startup across the country. Over the past few months, here are 5 lessons I’ve learned. Lesson #1: The […]
4 Things You Can Do Today To Make Yourself More Valuable
You’re young, hungry, and want to jump-start your career. You don’t have much experience outside of classrooms, but you know you’ll need more than some grades and government paper to succeed in the marketplace. Awesome. Here are a few very simple things you can do right now – today in fact! – in less than […]
3 Reasons Why You Should Learn Out Loud
You’re in the middle of an interesting online course. You just started reading a fascinating new book. You stayed up all night watching a series of talks by a provocative lecturer. Nobody knows. It’s a secret between you and your brain. One day, however, you’re going to surprise everyone. Maybe you’ll make an appearance on […]
Building a career bottom-up
We learn in school to take what I like to think of as a “top-down” approach to building your career. When it’s time to pick your first job, you think about a broad, top-level category like “PR,” “Marketing,” or “Engineering,” and then you try to find jobs or projects that match that category. While this […]
Why You Can’t Find Your Dream Job
You won’t find your dream job on Indeed.com or any other job board. You won’t find a job description that ticks all the boxes you are interested in. If you are waiting around for the perfect job to appear, you will be waiting a long time. To get a dream job you have to start […]
Monday Morning Begins on Sunday Evening
Desperately clinging to your beer and the last vestiges of the weekend, you refuse to give in to Monday stress on Sunday night. Still, it’s in the back of your mind putting a subtle damper on your evening. The next morning, as you clear the cobwebs and crank up the brain for work, everyone can […]
How to Make Your Reading More Productive
A reader of the Praxis blog recently asked me “Derek, you seem to read a lot. How do you do it more productively?” This struck me as an odd question at first until I remembered that school has a way of reading into a tedious process of checking off academic boxes instead of the selfish […]
Do You Have What it Takes to Opt-Out of College?
There’s a popular idea that the only people good enough to succeed without college are Steve Jobs level geniuses. This video makes that case that you’re not good enough to opt-out by presenting various statistics and averages of aggregates. I pointed out a few of the logical fallacies in that kind of argument here. The […]
The Four Tendencies
Something we’re passionate about at Praxis is creating value for our customers. It’s incredibly difficult to make an impact at a high growth startup when you have little to no experience in the workplace. That’s why our application process is so challenging. We don’t take money from applicants if we’re not confident they won’t thrive […]