The fifth untaught skill, and the first one that isn’t about your own judgment at all. It’s about what you’ll absorb on behalf of someone else. In a workplace where software has made blame precise, instant, and free, the rarest thing a human can do is stand between that precision and the people it would otherwise grind down.… Read the rest “Eating the Loss”
The fourth untaught skill. The one that comes after you learn to see clearly, learn to commit, and learn to be wrong well. It’s about knowing which decisions a human must keep their hands on now that the machine wants to make them for you — and it may be the last skill left that’s genuinely worth paying a person for.… Read the rest “I Almost Let a Model Make a $3M Call — The Untaught Skill That Stopped Me”
What follows is a case study in the Reversal Premium: the surprising authority you earn when you correct a costly mistake in real time. The air in an executive boardroom has a distinct physical weight. On a Wednesday morning at 9:14 a.m., it smells of high-grade commercial carpet cleaner, tech-company air filtration, and cold espresso.
… Read the rest “The Conviction Gap: The Career Skill AI Cannot Replace (And Most Professionals Don’t Have)”Quick read: Most mid-career professionals plateau at the same spot — somewhere between senior individual contributor and director. They produce great analysis, structure problems beautifully, and write competent memos. But they never quite cross into leadership. This piece is about what’s actually going on, why it’s getting worse in the AI era, and the three habits that close the Conviction Gap.
Quick map: this is the long-form essay. There’s a tighter Medium version, a 9-minute video, and a 60-second cut. Read first. The AI-Resistance Self-Assessment link is at the end.
I want to write about something I have been avoiding writing about for a while, because I am still inside the embarrassment of it.… Read the rest “The Borrowed Brain”
