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Squiggly Careers · 2026-10-06 · 43 min · 9,610 words

#599 Friction: Why making things harder can make you better

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Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen, and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Where every week we borrow brilliance from a person, a place, a book, even an object. And we try to turn that curiosity into useful action for you and your squiggly career. And before we tell you what we've been borrowing brilliance from this week, uh we have an exciting announcement. Is it exciting? I think it's exciting. Basically, every week we do the podcast and we produce a one page summary of the ideas we talk about to make it really easy to sort of turn your listening into action. Um and it's called a pod sheet and we put it in our emails and we put it on our LinkedIn page.

But we've made it even easier for you to find it. So you've not got to go searching around. So all you need to do is go to squiggly. Dot me Uh, do you like?'Cause everyone who listens is squiggly, so squiggly dot me. So it's great. Anyway, go to squiggly dot me and then that will basically take you to the newsletter so that every Tuesday you will always get The links to our podcast we put out two a week and you'll also get the link to the pod sheet. So squiggly.me is your place to go to sign up to our newsletter and get all the links for listening and learning. And that has actually come from some feedback that we have had quite a few times over the years. It's just taken us a while to sort, which is

We know that sometimes do people do find it hard to Like discover the different resources or the summaries that we produce sort of around the podcast. Um so you'll have to let us know, like It should. It's designed to make everyone's life easier, right? Squiggly dot me.

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