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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When AI Moves Faster Than the Intent
An architect described a design intent to an AI system. A word got misread in the transcription and it wasn’t caught. The building that came out the other side wasn’t wrong exactly. It was just…
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…
Self-Awareness Is Not a Soft Skill
Research from the National Institutes of Health suggests only 10 to 15 percent of people are genuinely self-aware. Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist who has studied self-awareness extensively, puts the number even lower — her…
The Conversation Most People Never Get
I stopped at a Starbucks on a road trip and ended up in a conversation with a guy who had just gotten his first job after a stretch of homelessness. I don’t remember exactly how…
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…