We think out loud about how good decisions get made — in the open, and free to read here. None of these are sales pieces.
Short essays we publish between editions — free to read, here on our own pages. Not sales pieces; a way to watch the publisher think before you buy a word.
An offer isn't a price. It's an anchor — and most of us negotiate from inside it without noticing.
Read the note →The people who hold out for the best offer often get one. They're also the ones most likely to regret it.
Read the note →We're far better at explaining the past than foreseeing the future. One small mental move borrows the first skill to repair the second.
Read the note →Your empty experience section isn't the problem. The recruiter's seven-second glance is.
Read the note →More than half the world's workers say they've got one eye on the door. Far fewer walk through it. The gap has a name.
Read the note →We agonise over the choices we could undo, and rush the ones we can't.
Read the note →The hardest job market in years — and the six situations every search runs into.
Read the note →Most interview prep tries to memorise answers. The people who walk out feeling like it went well have learned to hear the one question hiding under all the others.
Read the note →When you guess how long your job search will take, you guess from the inside. Here is the one number that fixes it.
Read the note →The fear that you're throwing away years of experience is the thing most likely to keep you stuck. Here's why it's wrong — and what to do instead.
Read the note →What we're actually building, why, and what you'll get from reading along.
Read the note →Building with AI Update #1 — the most useful thing the system did this month was fail, in a way I could catch.
Read the note →Decision Science — on evidence, and the discipline of deleting it.
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