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The problem with "side of desk" work

There are basically two ways to get promoted/advanced in white-collar. One lets you be an ass, and one burns you out completely.

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Ted Bauer
Aug 11, 2020
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This won't be a massively long post, but I wanted to alert on a few things. First off, my man Paul Millerd has a very good newsletter about work and life and balancing the two. Here's the most recent edition. Go ahead and subscribe. You'll dig it.

In that edition I linked, he talks about his friends in London referring to a concept called "side of desk" …

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