What it’s like to go through a dramatic career change
One answer to lifelong fulfillment? A spicier, more varied professional life
January 9, 2021
Rebecca Kacaba spent a decade chasing the highflier lawyer life.
Being an M&A attorney in Canada’s financial district felt important and it came with all the perks she’d dreamed of: A fancy office, assistants, fresh lattes, powerful clients, and a salary to match the stakes.
But in early 2018, a sense of restlessness kicked in and Kacaba began to question the career she had spent years training for.
So, she left the legal profession and launched a cloud-based software company to help streamline the fundraising process for startups.
âKindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Artâ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Rebecca Wragg Sykes argues that weâve spent too much time studying the way Neanderthals interacted with Homo Sapiens and too little studying the way Neanderthals interacted with each other. So she tells us how they lived, treating them not as one of evolutionâs failures but as our close behavioral cousins.
âThe fate of the Neanderthals has monopolised enormous amounts of attention,â she writes, âyet it may be the least interesting thing about them.â
âAn Outsiderâs Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Areâ
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BYU President Kevin J Worthen
January 12, 2021, Devotional
Kevin J Worthen began serving as the 13th president of Brigham Young University on May 1, 2014. He previously served as BYU s advancement vice president and as the dean of its J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he was the Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law. President Worthen currently serves as an area seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President and Sister Worthen have three children and six grandchildren.
President Worthen was born in Dragerton (now East Carbon-Sunnyside), Utah, and grew up in nearby Price. After serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Monterrey, Mexico, he earned an associate degree from the College of Eastern Utah (now USU Eastern). He then received his Bachelor of Arts in political science and his Juris Doctor from BYU. Following his graduation from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, President Worthen served as a law clerk to Judge Ma
2020 was a challenging year. With majority of the global population locked up indoors, bibliophiles couldn t help but seek refuge in the world of books to escape the tough times. As they say, tough times don t last - tough people do. And since 2020 qualifies as tough times, as Bill Gates says in his blog post, there s no better time to read a book than now.
In a no-holds-barred blog post, Gates wrote that there were times when he wanted to dwelve deeper into social issues like Black Lives Matter protests which took the centerstage this year but there were days when he needed a change of pace and read something lighter.