The Personal Essayist
by Jason Weilandin 📚 Literature
The Personal Essayist
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Essays that enlighten, amuse, inspire, captivate. The human experience is complex, but rife with identity, commonality. Share your words with us so that we may embrace the world we live in and fully cherish our eclectic humanity.
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About Jason Weiland
I'm 57 and building a business in public. I co-founded Unfireable — we help workers the job market wrote off build income on their own terms. Real decisions. Real numbers. Real failures. Every Tuesday.
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