7 Ways to Accelerate Your Career (Starting Now)
You got the job, but what comes next? If you’re looking to accelerate your career and rise to the top, these 7 strategies are for you.
Why Professionals Need Philosophy
When most people think of philosophy their mind goes fuzzy. It conjures up images of dull textbooks, boring teachers, abstract questions like “the nature of the word ‘the’” or lifeboat situation hypotheticals like “do you pull the lever to kill 1 person or 5? It’s not really any wonder to me why most students and…
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…
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…
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…
Pay Your Praxis Tuition in Bitcoin Cash
The Praxis team is excited to announce that by popular request, and in the interest of always providing the best, most convenient payment options available, we can now support tuition payments in Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Participants of the full program and the internship program can now pay their tuition in full or on a monthly…
Book a Praxis Talk or Webinar for Your Group in 2018
Today we’re excited to officially open bookings for Praxis talks and webinars throughout 2018. In 2017, Praxis team members gave dozens of talks and live webinars around the world at small meet up groups, classrooms, large conferences, and everything in between in places as far apart as Lviv, Ukraine and Jackson, Mississippi. Topics included “building…
Why Should I Apply to the Praxis Startup Internship Program?
Last week we announced a new pilot program, the Praxis Startup Internship Program. For years now we’ve been discussing as a company a lighter weight Praxis experience that we could offer young people who love Praxis and what it offers but who, because of other commitments, goals, or lifestyle decisions, can’t commit to the full…
4 MORE Reasons to Rethink College
Should you 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…
What To Do When The Hiring Process Is Dragging On
This post is about what to do when you’ve applied to a job and the employer is taking a long time to make a decision. This is more common than you might think because most people, even if their initial application is good, are helpless when navigating the process. They hit it off in their…
Excuses We Give Ourselves for Inaction and How to Respond
There’s an insidious quirk in myself and everyone I know that prevents us from action. Call it “Resistance” or anything else you like, but the result is the same: things don’t get done, and your success suffers for it. For most of my life, I’ve been told the solution is to “buckle down” and just…
How to Learn Professional Skills More Quickly
Today I’m going to write about learning. No, not classroom learning and not intellectual learning. This post is about highly practical professional learning and how to accelerate it. It assumes a few things: 1. You don’t have time to spend four years studying to see the results you want. 2. Money is on the line…
3 Dumb Reasons People Mess Up Great Opportunities
When we’re young, we often bring along baggage and bad ideas about work into our first few professional opportunities. We assume the problem lies with the job, the people with whom we work, our something else outside ourselves and we rarely ask whether we are the problem. Our work becomes unfulfilling and unenjoyable, and we…
What Job Seekers Can Learn from Top Sales Teams
“Do the unconventional” is one of our mottos at Praxis. No, it’s not something we do for the sake of being unconventional, but in a world where the cost of information is reaching zero, doing the unconventional is often the only way to stand out in a crowded field. Consider the fact that companies like…
3 Common Traps to Avoid when Choosing Your First Job
I remember in college just about the most stressful period of every semester was not finals. It was the time everyone had to choose their classes for the next semester. At the University of Michigan, there were literally hundreds of courses, you could enroll in, and students would become overwhelmed by options. What I noticed…