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 the Title Doesn’t Match the Person
Senior Vice President. Decision maker. Budget authority. Worth the follow-up. Associate. Still climbing. File accordingly. Founder. Visionary or cautionary tale. Context required. Titles aren’t just information, they’re signals, and everyone knows how to read them….
You Can’t Outwork a Mismatch
I see this pattern a lot: High effort. Low satisfaction. Talented people grinding through roles that don’t fit how they actually think, process, or operate. And on the flip side: Low effort. High satisfaction. People…
The Experience Loop and How to Break It
You can’t get experience without a job, and you can’t get a job without experience. Everyone who has ever started a career has felt this. It feels like a design flaw. It isn’t. It’s a…
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…
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…