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How to Quit Your Job (and Find Work You Actually Love)
Ali Abdaal
Contents
18 chapters · 57 sections
1Why I quit my high-paying job with no plan
2The shame of walking away from success
3Stop accepting low-grade suffering at work
4Are you wired for the pathless path?
5The math behind quitting your job safely
6Use time off to rediscover who you are
7How to fund your freedom on a budget
8Your income streams will evolve over time
9Turn your skills into immediate cash flow
10Treat your career break like a life MBA
11Passion doesn't mean work is easy
12Align your daily actions with your ideal life
13Focus on your mode, not your niche
14Declare yourself retired with the skip test
15Handling family criticism of your career choices
16Would you trade wealth for total freedom?
17Get comfortable with feeling cringe
18Why traditional job security is a myth
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Paul left because the work had quietly stopped fitting who he was, not because of a single dramatic event. Early on he chased prestige and big salaries, optimizing for impressive internships and the markers of success [00:59–02:18]. By around thirty-two the job had drained his energy and passion, and quitting was mostly about escaping that misalignment and getting himself back [04:37–06:04]. When he ran a self-assessment, he realized he'd drifted from the goals he set in grad school, to avoid becoming money-obsessed and to keep his sense of humor, which made clear how far off course he'd gone [06:05–07:55]. The decision was less “follow your dream” and more “stop betraying your own values.”

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    6.64%
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    7.11%
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    7.37%
  6. Whisper large-v3
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    8.13%

Word error rate. Average across 8 datasets: AMI (meetings), Earnings22 (earnings calls), GigaSpeech (web audio and podcasts), LibriSpeech clean and other (audiobooks), SPGISpeech (financial calls), TED-LIUM (talks), VoxPopuli (parliament speech). Source: HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard, snapshot 2026-05-05.

21.6%
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Hey, I'm Seunghun 👋

In 2023 I left Spotify to work on the problem of finding the useful 90 seconds inside a three-hour podcast. We built goodlisten.co, ran out of runway, and I went back to a desk job.

But I kept needing it myself. English was the easy part. The audio I actually cared about was harder: Korean podcasts where the host slips into English, Japanese conversations with three speakers, Spanish lectures recorded in noisy rooms. I was tired of spending two hours just to find the two minutes that mattered.

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