Library · Tag

Career

An annotated collection of 2 essays on career, spanning 1999 to 2005. Featuring works by Peter F. Drucker, Steve Jobs — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Managing Oneself

Peter F. Drucker, 1999 · Harvard Business Review, January 1999

Drucker's short HBR essay — written at eighty-nine — argues that the central task of a knowledge worker is to know themselves: their strengths, how they learn, how they work with others, what they value, and where they b…

You've Got to Find What You Love

Steve Jobs, 2005 · Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005

Jobs's Stanford commencement speech — three stories about connecting the dots, love and loss, and death — is probably the most watched graduation address of the twenty-first century, and reading the transcript rather tha…