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…
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The Human Resource
{*} The AI narrator, employee view: Here are your tasks for the day. Ten items. Skill match 83%. All ten fall within your skill zone with the balance sitting in your comfort zone. You were…
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…
Start With a Concept
There’s no shortage of ideas about how to redesign work right now. In architecture, before you touch the floor plan, you establish a concept. A single organizing idea that every subsequent decision answers to. Call…
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…
The Lifespan of Skills
There was a time when learning a skill meant having it for a career. You trained, you practiced, you got good, and that goodness compounded over decades. The investment paid off because the environment held…