Yancey strickler biography examples

Two years ago I left my job.

After a decade of working obsessively on one thing, I wasn’t sure what to do next. As I struggled with this, it occurred to me that while this question put me in a state of personal paralysis, I was very experienced answering it in a different context.

I’d spent years making strategic plans for my company, Kickstarter — expanding our mission to bring creative projects to life, pushing ourselves to consider the impact of our decisions on society, not just the size of our profits. 

What if I approached my own future in a similar way?

What would happen if instead of asking what I as a person should do, I tried answering what Yancey, Public Benefit Corporation, should do? 

Despite normally being allergic to these things, I spent a week applying brainstorming methods, frameworks, and other corporate strategy tools to myself.

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What were my strengths and weaknesses? What were my opportunities? What were my blindspo