This week on Syllabus, Ashby and Coco attempt to distill 5+ years of conversations down to a breezy couple of hours. Do they succeed? You can be the judge!
They dive into the fraught waters of untangling their relationships to work: the role it plays in their lives, it’s impact on their egos and identities, and the compromises and questions it’s raised along the way.
In Part 1, they focus on their "villain origin stories,” exploring how their very millennial educational experiences shaped their expectations for what work would be…only to find reality didn’t quite live up to the promise.
Most importantly, they explore some of the downsides of their “teacher’s pet” wiring and seek to ground themselves in their values, bottom line be damned!
For anyone who feels triggered by the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” This one’s for you.
Highlights include:
The outsized influence of The West Wing
Once again: Judas and the Black Messiah
Ezra Klein, cautionary tale
The joys of Hamilton Nolan’s substack
The limits of the progressive nonprofit job (not always! but sometimes!)
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