My second session with military veterans Nyles Thorne and Don Valdez, we talk about transitioning to civilian life, professional challenges, and lessons learned.

A few insights to apply:
– Take yourself out of your first world-centric mindset. Don’t be entitled. Develop patience.
– There’s different type of characters on a team. Learn to work with and develop empathy for different personalities, passive or assertive.
– Wake up early. Get stuff done sooner than others. Set yourself up for success.
– Manage up, manage down. Take full ownership.
– The military talks about micromanagement too. Decentralized command just works better.

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On this episode of Origin Story, military veterans Don Valdez and Nyles Thorne discuss their adolescence, the experiences that led them to make the decision to join the military, and how that has shaped their professional careers in digital advertising.

I tell a special story about my grandfather’s time in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, how that unit contributed to modern media and computing, and his eventual lifelong career in telecommunications.

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