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.”
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”
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”
