628: How to Stay Challenged and Grow Your Career with Daniel Scrivner

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Scriver shares insights on how to develop your career from his experience as a college dropout turned designer turned CEO.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to develop new skills through self-teaching

2) Why Daniel left a dream job at Apple

3) Why you should always seek discomfort

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— ABOUT DANIEL —

Daniel Scrivner is the CEO of Flow. Previously he was the Head of Design at Digit and Square. He's worked for some of the most respected brands in the world including Apple, Nike, Disney, and Target.

Daniel advises world-class teams at companies like LendingHome, Empower, TrustToken, Designer Fund, and Notation Capital. He’s an early-stage investor in businesses like Superhuman, MixMax, Notion, Good Eggs, Burrow, Madison Reed, Stance, Almanac Brewing, and many more. And he's been invited to speak at some of the world's most prestigious organizations including Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), General Assembly, Techstars, Designer Fund, and 500 Startups.

• Daniel’s website: DanielScrivner.com

• Daniel’s Twitter: @DanielScrivner

• Daniel’s LinkedIn: Daniel Scrivner

• Daniel’s podcast: Outliers with Daniel Scrivner

• Daniel’s company: GetFlow.com

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• Book: Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.2	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.2	With your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:16.2	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 628 with Daniel Scrivener.
0:23.7	This was a fun conversation.
0:24.7	We went deep into Daniel's career story, which is interesting and has taken away, so it's
0:29.0	a little bit more narrative, a little less prescriptive, but I think you'll love the
0:35.1	flavor flavor that we came up with.
0:36.6	See, I'll learn one, how to develop new skills through self-teaching, two, why Daniel left
0:40.8	a dream job at Apple, and three, why you should always seek discomfort.
0:44.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to I don't
0:47.6	do reference, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 628.
0:52.7	That's awesome at your job.com slash F 628.
0:55.6	Now here's Daniel's story.
0:57.0	Daniel Scrivener is the CEO of Flow.
0:59.2	Previously, he was the head designer, digit, and square.
1:02.2	He's worked for some of the most respected brands in the world, including Apple, Nike,
1:05.9	Disney, and Target.
1:07.4	And nowadays, Daniel advises world-class teams at companies like Lending Home, Empower,
1:11.5	Trust Token, Designer Fund, and Notation Capital.
	...

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