You’re Not Anxious. You’ve Been Trained to Absorb Everyone Else’s Stress.

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.”

AI-Resistant Career Capital: The 7 Skills That Outlasted 312 Layoffs

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”

The Human Premium: A Career Audit for Professionals with 10–25 Years of Experience

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”

Workplace Betrayal: How to Respond When a Colleague Crosses the Line

How to Handle Workplace Betrayal Professionally: An Introduction

 

Knowing how to handle workplace betrayal professionally is something most career guides skip entirely. Yet workplace betrayal doesn’t usually arrive with a dramatic confrontation.

It rarely looks like what you see in films — a shouting match in the corridor, a formal accusation, a visible falling-out.… Read the rest “Workplace Betrayal: How to Respond When a Colleague Crosses the Line”

How to Run an AI Systems Audit for Your Organisation in 5 Working Days

You don’t need to pay £9,000 a month to find out where your AI strategy is failing. This AI systems audit guide gives you a map — and this is how you build one in five working days.

The most valuable thing I deliver to a client in our first week isn’t a 50-page strategy deck.… Read the rest “How to Run an AI Systems Audit for Your Organisation in 5 Working Days”

You don’t need to pay £9,000 a month to find out where your AI strategy is failing. This AI systems audit guide gives you a map — and this is how you build one in five working days.

The most valuable thing I deliver to a client in our first week isn’t a 50-page strategy deck.… Read the rest “How to Run an AI Systems Audit for Your Organisation in 5 Working Days”