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Colin Rocker | @careercolin

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Your weekly guide to staying present, productive, and purposeful, sent first thing Monday morning. From @careercolin

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Oct 20

2026 will be the year of the Creative Technologist

October 20th, 2025 We were raised on a lie. I'm old enough to remember when everyone was saying that you needed to learn how to code. Every teacher, parent, and counselor I came across in High School said that Software Engineering would be the career of the future, as tech startups (at the time) like Facebook and Snapchat were making millions of dollars, and were founded by young people with nothing but a laptop and the knowledge of how to code. Today, the unemployment rate for an entry-level...

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Oct 13

Close your loops.

Oct 06

Are you failing enough?

Sep 29

What's your legacy going to be?

Sep 22

Why it's so hard to stay consistent

Sep 15

Why timing matters more than effort

Sep 08

You never know who’s watching

Sep 02

Who do you owe a phonecall to?

Aug 25

What are you tolerating?

Jul 23

first things first: you never know who's watching

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