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”
… 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.
Video: 2-minute version · 9-minute full breakdown. Essay: Medium.
Last week, someone left a passive-aggressive comment on something I’d posted online.
It wasn’t even mean. It was that worse, smaller thing — a polite “actually…” that implied I had no idea what I was talking about. My chest got tight.… Read the rest “You’re Not Anxious. You’ve Been Trained to Absorb Everyone Else’s Stress.”
The career advice currently dominating your feed assumes the problem is your lack of AI skills. Across 312 interviews with professionals displaced by AI over the past year, that assumption kept being wrong. What actually separated the recovered from the stuck was something older, harder to teach, and almost entirely absent from the upskilling discourse.… Read the rest “AI-Resistant Career Capital: The 7 Skills That Outlasted 312 Layoffs”
A companion piece to I Got Replaced by ChatGPT — Then Rehired at Triple the Rate
Experience compounds or decays. The difference isn’t the years — it’s whether you know exactly what you’ve built.
The worst professional mistake I’ve made wasn’t a bad decision. It was describing myself wrong for a decade.… Read the rest “The Human Premium: A Career Audit for Professionals with 10–25 Years of Experience”
