https://blog.thomas-bray.com/tags/skill/Recent content in Skill on Rabid CuriosityHugoen-usThomas BrayTue, 17 Mar 2026 09:55:00 -0500https://blog.thomas-bray.com/posts/passion-skill-and-profit-scott-galloway/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:55:00 -0500https://blog.thomas-bray.com/posts/passion-skill-and-profit-scott-galloway/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Scott Galloway&rsquo;s provocation—that &ldquo;follow your passion&rdquo; is terrible career advice, and you should instead follow the money—is a useful corrective to a lot of fuzzy thinking. But like most contrarian takes, it overcorrects. The real framework is more nuanced: passion, skill, and economic demand interact, and the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle. This post uses Galloway&rsquo;s argument as a jumping-off point for thinking clearly about how to build a career worth having.</p>