This whole “to or not to follow your passion” series took a long time. I think that’s because I had to look up a bunch of charts and stuff and that made me feel sleepy. Basically, I had to take Read More …

The objection goes something like the following. Notice anything odd? Jun seems to find the whole ‘follow your passion’ type lifestyle appealing, but he worries about the future and wonders how he will be able to afford a house and Read More …

As promised, let’s sort through a few more objections to the idea that following your passion is solid career advice.  IT’S IMPOSSIBLE  This is clearly not true but I have to get it out of the way. There are at least 14 Read More …

Last time, I attempted to give that controversial advice – to follow your passion – the benefit of the doubt by showing that its origin might just be the result of plenty more factors than laziness or pickiness on the part of Read More …

If all the TED Talks on “following your passion” hadn’t got me ready to scrawl a few notes, reading an article the other day would’ve. It was just enough to tip the pile of thoughts over prod me to organize them. I’ll paraphrase Read More …