Dominik Nitsch | Generalist & Multipreneur

Stop "spearheading", start proving. [#136] Corporate "CV slop" is what you write when you have nothing to say. You can also read this in your browser. "I'm a results-driven professional with 7+ years of experience, specializing in spearheading cross-functional marketing projects with exposure to senior leadership." This, dear reader, is my job. I read s**t like this all day, looking at CVs and free-text fields of applicants. I don't know who teaches this, and what material AI was trained on...

Nobody writes advice for 30-somethings [#134] So I wrote 33 pieces of them. You can also read this in your browser. At 30, you're supposed to have your life figured out. That's, at least, what it feels like from the endless advice for people in their 20s. But for people in their 30s, there are few and far between. I'm guilty of this, too: I wrote a list like this for my 30th birthday, giving advice to the next generation. Still one of my best pieces of writing, and still useful if you're in...

Too profitable to kill, too small to sell [#131] How startups end up in purgatory, and what I'm doing to prevent mine from going there. You can also read this in your browser. Hey there! Apologies for sending this newsletter a day late; fell ill over the weekend, and had to take a break. Here we go: When we think about startups, we think about them in binary terms: either a startup is a success, or it’s a failure. We hear about successes all the time: multi-million exits, rags to riches, all...

Too senior for IC, too operational to lead? [#127] The seniority trap nobody warns you about. Good news: you can climb out. Here's how. You can also read this in your browser. Here's a line I've heard more times than I can count since building Generalyst: "I'm too operational for a leadership role, too senior for an IC [= individual contributor] role." If that's you, here's what to do about it. Let's go. Recognize leadership isn't the end-all, be-all "Man, when I'm really successful, I wanna...

Are you an NPC? [#121] High agency is great, but using agency to buy more agency misses the point. You can also read this in your browser. "Eventually, the only thing left for humans is agency." – Akshay Kothari, Notion Co-Founder I spent most of last weekend hanging out with my lacrosse teammates, most of them Gen Z or whatever comes after that. Phrases like "digga was ist das für ein Bot" (= "dude this guy is such a bot") or "der ist übelst der NPC" (= "he's such an NPC", NPC referring to...