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• 1:1 Coaching : Jason Yoong offers limited 1:1 coaching for ambitious professionals. Sessions are $600 for 60 minutes, focused on your career topic of choice.
• Start Here : Jason Yoong has run $1B+ businesses at Amazon and IPG, raised $8M in seed funding, and co-founded Level Up, a career platform with 250,000+ followers.

Best Posts

The best place to start: Jason's most-shared thinking on careers, leadership, and what it takes to level up as a professional.

• Turn Your Out-of-Office Message Into a Career-Boosting Billboard : Jason Yoong used his OOO to showcase projects, wins, and curiosities. SVPs replied most often, opening conversations that built lasting executive rapport.
• 5 Career Advice For My 21 Year-Old Self : Jason Yoong shares five lessons from his career: network over GPA, leverage internships, chase mentors not titles, earn your passion, and own your time.
• AI and Content Businesses: How We're Adapting at Level Up : Jason Yoong explains how Level Up is responding to AI: launching an Ethan GPT, rethinking the business as AI-first, and doubling down on free content.
• My Career Jigsaw: Professional Growth and Personal Priorities : Jason Yoong reflects on a non-linear path from Amazon to a venture startup to Level Up, and how flexibility and family seasons guide his choices.
• What Your Manager Won't Tell You: The Art of Managing Up with Wes Kao : Maven co-founder Wes Kao joins Jason Yoong on managing up to intense executives, building trust with insecure managers, and lessons from Seth Godin.

AI & The Future of Work

How artificial intelligence is reshaping work, content, and careers. Jason writes from inside the transition, including how Level Up is adapting and what skills will matter most when AI writes the code.

• Mark Zuckerberg on AI in Tech : Jason Yoong unpacks Zuckerberg's prediction that AI will write most code in 12 to 18 months and what the shift to autonomous AI teammates means for tech.
• AI and Content Businesses: How We're Adapting at Level Up : Jason Yoong explains how Level Up is responding to AI: launching an Ethan GPT, rethinking the business as AI-first, and doubling down on free content.

Career Advice

Practical moves for professionals at every stage: landing the job, standing out early, avoiding common mistakes, and charting a non-linear path that fits your life. "5 Career Advice For My 21 Year-Old Self" is the post to read first.

• How To Escape The Benchwarmer Bucket : Manager impressions stick. Jason Yoong shares two fixes: a four-bullet Thursday update and a no-surprises rule that keeps risks surfaced early.
• Tips to Maximize Your Networking : Jason Yoong reframes networking as a value-first transaction. Build goodwill first, ask about 6-month roadmaps, and use the Rule of 3.
• 3 Career Mistakes Early Professionals Make : Jason Yoong identifies three early-career missteps: chasing titles over skills, neglecting your network, and letting your first job define your path.
• How to Ace Interviews and Land the Job: Advice for USC Students and Recent Graduates : Jason Yoong answers four common interview questions for USC students: how to show future impact, frame your background, and close with strong questions.
• Turn Your Out-of-Office Message Into a Career-Boosting Billboard : Jason Yoong used his OOO to showcase projects, wins, and curiosities. SVPs replied most often, opening conversations that built lasting executive rapport.
• 3 Skills AI Can't Replace : Jason Yoong argues that judgment, executive presence, and emotional intelligence are the three skills AI cannot replicate and explains how to build each.
• 5 Underrated Ways to Stand Out Early in Your Career : Jason Yoong outlines five overlooked habits: close the loop, write clearly, ask thoughtful questions, excel at mundane work, and build deep reliability.
• 5 Career Advice For My 21 Year-Old Self : Jason Yoong shares five lessons from his career: network over GPA, leverage internships, chase mentors not titles, earn your passion, and own your time.
• My Career Jigsaw: Professional Growth and Personal Priorities : Jason Yoong reflects on a non-linear path from Amazon to a venture startup to Level Up, and how flexibility and family seasons guide his choices.

Conversations & Profiles

Fireside chats, book notes, and profiles of founders, executives, and athletes Jason has learned from. Each post distills one person's best thinking on performance, leadership, or career growth.

• Tobi Lütke: 4 Ways to Make Your Team Truly Care About Your Product : Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says great products need a team that genuinely cares. Jason Yoong draws out four practical strategies for leaders.
• Unforgettable Presence by Lorraine K. Lee : Jason Yoong reviews Lorraine K. Lee's bestseller on executive presence and shares a full conversation on virtual communication and LinkedIn visibility.
• Tobias Lütke's Shopify AI Memo: A Leadership Masterclass : Jason Yoong breaks down 8 points from Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke's AI memo: reflexive AI use, performance reviews, and AI as a headcount gatekeeper.
• Career & Personal Challenges Faced by Women in Tech with Chaitali Narla : Chaitali Narla earned 5 promotions at Google and Stripe in a decade. She and Jason Yoong discuss sponsorship, title negotiation, and new-mother leadership.
• Olympic Gold: Habits for Peak Performance with Justin Best : Paris 2024 gold medalist Justin Best joins Jason Yoong on balancing investment banking with elite rowing, sleep optimization, and breaking big goals down.
• What Your Manager Won't Tell You: The Art of Managing Up with Wes Kao : Maven co-founder Wes Kao joins Jason Yoong on managing up to intense executives, building trust with insecure managers, and lessons from Seth Godin.
• What a Series B Co-Founder looks for in their Leadership Team with Dee Murthy : Ghost Co-Founder Dee Murthy tells Jason Yoong why chaos experience beats big-company polish, why in-person interviews are required, and the 90-day rule.

Leadership & Management

What it actually takes to lead teams, manage in both directions, break through to the executive level, and run the kind of meetings and documents that move things forward. Draws on Jason's time at Amazon and his work building Level Up.

• Maven: Top Course in Leadership : Jason Yoong and Ethan Evans (retired Amazon VP) teach a Maven course on earning promotions, using AI as a career tool, and executive visibility.
• How We Kick Off Our In-Person Workweek : Jason Yoong and Ethan Evans hold in-person workweeks in Honolulu. Shared adventure deepens their bond, renews purpose, and sparks creative ideas.
• How to Manage Up and Down Effectively : Jason Yoong explains the Magic Loop, Ethan Evans's five-step method for managing relationships up and down the org to earn trust and grow faster.
• How to Break Through to Executive Level : Jason Yoong shares five tips for reaching executive roles: scaled leadership, becoming a change agent, mastering the Magic Loop, and building presence.
• Working for Tech Giants vs. Startups : Jason Yoong compares Amazon with founding a startup, covering speed vs. process, network leverage, and what each environment builds in a leader.
• The Profitable Path of Being Unprofitable : In 1999, Bezos laughed about Amazon being famously unprofitable. Jason Yoong draws lessons on long-term vision and being willing to be misunderstood.
• The Art of the 1-2 Page Document : Jason Yoong outlines the four sections for crisp decision documents: clear purpose, upfront recommendation, supporting data, and honest rude FAQs.
• What It Means to Be an Amazonian: My Time at Amazon : What does it mean to be Amazonian? Day 1 mindset, narrative docs, raising the bar. Jason Yoong on his four years inside Amazon.
• Brian Chesky: The Truth About The 1:1 Model : Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky abandoned recurring 1:1s, calling them therapy sessions. Jason Yoong shares three takeaways for executive-level leaders.