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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a slightly longer one, part of the

series where I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome

and any advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Simone

Stolesoff to Before Breakfast. Simone is the author of The Good Enough Job and also the author of the brand new book,

How Not to Know, the Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers. So, Simone, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?

I'm a journalist and an author. I wasn't always this profession, though I had sort of a meandering

career in college. I studied poetry and economics. And so maybe you can already see the

tension between the pursuit of art and the pursuit of commerce. But I like to think of my beat

as taking big swings at big questions. And so my first book, The Good Enough Job, was about

how work has come to be so central to our identities. And so my first book, The Good Enough Job, was about how work has come to be so

central to our identities. And in the release and afterwards, I kept hearing questions from

listeners and readers about how they should think about their career in the face of all the

uncertainty in the world, in their careers, in their lives. And so my second book, How to Not

know, is sort of a response to that. It's an attempt to

help you get better at dealing with uncertainty. And God knows we all need that right now.

Well, I would say, I mean, is life more uncertain now, or do we just more aware of various

aspects of the uncertainty? It's a little bit of both. And so there's been some really good

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