When You’re Truly Good at Your Job, You Want to Hear the Ways You Suck at It

One of the most underrated ways to measure your professional success

Leah Fessler
Forge
Published in
4 min readJul 2, 2019

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AAbout six months ago, I quit a job I was very good at. I was a staff writer at a digital publication, and was in line for a promotion. Lots of people told me that leaving was a bad idea. Mostly, I agreed with them. But I…

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Leah Fessler
Forge

Investor at NextView Ventures. Journalist. Thinking about gender, equality, and pugs. Formerly at Chief, Quartz, Slow, Bridgewater Associates, Middlebury.