Titles are low friction, and they give people a place to put you. They answer three questions at once: what you do, who you work for, and roughly where you sit in the pecking order….
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The Potemkin Village Problem in Hiring
In 1787, Grigory Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River to impress the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and her foreign guests as she toured the lands he governed. The…
What AI Made Humanity Finally Ask
From “The Infrastructure Century: How Ten Systems Shaped Human Civilization” — Oxford Press, 2051 — “Water systems allowed humans to stop following rivers and start building cities. Roads turned isolated settlements into economies. Electricity extended…
Adaptive Intelligence: The Skill Most Career Advice Skips
The most in-demand skill right now isn’t on any job posting. It’s not a technical skill. It’s not a credential. It’s not something you learn in a semester. It’s knowing how you work well enough…
What Should Work Look Like Next?
People don’t know what work should look like next, but everyone has a slide deck about it. Here are a few models worth thinking about, some real, some hypothetical, and some slightly absurd. — Maximize…
The Wrong First Question
The first question most people get asked about work is: what do you do? It’s a reasonable question, and it’s also the wrong one to start with. What you do changes. Skills needed right now…