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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]