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#136 Complexity & Complicatedness - Sam Spurlin on playing hockey, why he quit teaching, studying at Claremont, leaving a PhD program, working pro bono too start his career, complicated vs complex systems, how to deal with ego in organizations, remote work failures, podcasting with his brother, and the importance of a retrospective meeting
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
What Was It Like to Let Go of the PhD?
I have never regretted that decision since since I've made it. It's yeah, it was a major weight off my shoulders. And really what it was, it allowed me to go just sink deeper into what I really wanted to do. Every minute every second that I was learning some obscure statistical analysis for my dissertation was a second or a minute that I wasn't getting better at what I actually cared about.
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