Courage and why playing it safe in your career is becoming riskier (Day 2) | Open to Work

Anish, welcome back to day two of our series on open to work. Your New York Times best-selling book. How did you feel when it was on the best-seller? Relief, I think, because we weren't sure how it was gonna land and if anyone wanted to read it and if the message would resonate. So I think it was, oh, this was worth it, is what it felt like.

Well, I think it's a brilliant book. I also think for all of the Squiggly Career listeners, is a real companion to Squiggly Careers because I'm like, this is why you have to develop the skills, because this is what's happening at work every day. Well, this is partly why we wrote it, and you're called out in this. book and so many sort of um early thinkers about how we should change work and careers are in the book. We wanted to take all of that and all that you've been doing for years now and give it this bigger frame, this complete disruption to work.

I think the greatest disruption to work in human history, backed by LinkedIn, is a point of view that people will believe that feels credible because we've got more than a billion members. We're in 200 countries and territories. So we're so thankful and grateful for the work that so many of you have done. to tee up how we should approach this and felt like our role was to sum all that up into this big moment so that people could like pull from it. It actually fit is a super quotable book.

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