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Writing on careers.

How careers, hiring and professional identity change as skills decay faster.

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Git History Is the New Performance Review
15 Mar Git History Is the New Performance Review
A clean commit looks identical whether a human made the call or an AI executed it, so an unattributed git log stops being a trustworthy record of who decided what.
AI Is Teaching Me How to Be More Human
10 Feb AI Is Teaching Me How to Be More Human
Work that mainly produces data to justify a decision was never the actual contribution — it was cover, and AI now does that work faster than any analyst.
Your Attention Is the Product
22 Jan Your Attention Is the Product
A system that personalizes by inferring what you want from your behavior optimizes for whoever controls the algorithm, not for you.
The Full-Stack CEO
21 Jan The Full-Stack CEO
Leading AI workers across every business function takes the same skill a CEO uses to direct a CMO or CTO without being an expert in either.
Aspire, Judge, Create: The Three Skills AI Can't Replace
20 Jan Aspire, Judge, Create: The Three Skills AI Can't Replace
Three capabilities remain distinctly human as models take over the rest: aspire, or setting the right goal; judge, applying values and context; and create, generating truly orthogonal ideas.
The New Learning Paradigm: Why the Half-Life of Skills is Your Biggest Opportunity
8 Jan The New Learning Paradigm: Why the Half-Life of Skills is Your Biggest Opportunity
The half-life of acquired skills is compressing fast, and that isn't a crisis — it's the biggest democratization of opportunity in a generation.
The Death of Traditional Hiring: Nobody's Coming for You
8 Jan The Death of Traditional Hiring: Nobody's Coming for You
The people who matter now aren't the ones agents will replace — they're the ones who can lead a team of agents, because no training program is coming.