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Built a global media business at 52. At 69, I’m building Zyrro to help experienced people turn identity and ideas into valuable work in the AI age. 33M readers
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Stop Trying to Find Your Focus. Read Your Curiosity Instead.

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By Jeff Bullas
| Jeff Bullas's Blog
Curiosity is one thing machines do not have. They answer questions. They do not ask their own. Nothing keeps a machine up at night wanting to know. We do. It is one of the oldest signals we carry. But right now that signal is being wasted, and a lot of money is being spent to waste it. This piece is about how to stop wasting yours and start reading it. Last month I went looking for one number. I wanted the share of Netflix viewing that comes from its recommendation engine. One figure for one chart.
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This is what 700 Rejections Taught Me

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By Jeff Bullas
| Jeff Bullas's Blog
At 51, I applied for 700 jobs. Not 70. Seven hundred. If you allow half an hour for each one — the tailoring, the cover letter, the form that makes you retype the CV you already attached — that is 350 hours. Nearly nine working weeks of a life, spent asking. One word and one phrase came back. Overqualified. Culture fit. Here is what was on the résumé those two words were applied to.
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What Your Curiosity Reveals About Your Future

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By Jeff Bullas
| Jeff Bullas's Blog
Brian Grazer threw up on Jonas Salk. He had worked for a long time to get an hour with the man who beat polio. They met in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Grazer walked across the room and his nerves won. Salk steadied him. Ordered orange juice for his blood sugar. Helped him clean up. Then invited him home for an eight-hour conversation. Grazer went on to produce Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind. But the habit underneath the films is stranger than any of the films.
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