Career

10 posts tagged “Career”.

  1. Two lit rooms seen from outside at dusk, with a dark gap between them
    8 min readPerspectives

    What's your perspective on AI?

    In one room I sound like a shill and in the other like a sceptic. Both sides of the AI argument arrive with the answer already decided.

  2. A person holds a ladder at a cliff edge while a group walks towards a different horizon below.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The thing that got you here is now in the way

    The quality that made you good can become the thing in your way. Why unlearning is harder than learning, and why almost nobody will tell you it's happening.

  3. A manager peers through a small window at one working moment while a much larger landscape of work unfolds unseen.
    3 min readPerspectives

    Your manager sees about a quarter of what you do

    You see all of your work. Your manager sees maybe a quarter, and not because they're bad at their job. For anyone who thinks good work should speak for itself.

  5. A hiker chooses between a clear mountain path and a thorn-covered path that loops back on itself.
    4 min readPerspectives

    Not all discomfort is building you

    Three kinds of hard, and the dangerous one is indistinguishable from the good one. How to check whether you're learning or just coping.

  6. One person walks through repeated calendar doorways while others gather evidence along a winding path.
    4 min readPerspectives

    You might have years without having experience

    Ten years in one place and five jobs in five years produce the same shallow judgment. Experience is a feedback loop closing on you, not a duration.

  7. A person struggles along a coastal path carrying an unstable tower of papers, boxes and books.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The weekend that broke me

    Sixty hours in an office, one immovable deadline, and what I learned about my own judgment when appreciation turned out to be the entire transaction.

  8. A person tends a small green plant in a mostly empty studio lit by a narrow patch of warmth.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The selfish reason to still care

    Detachment is a rational response to corporate work. It also dulls the judgment you were protecting. On caring about the craft rather than the company.

  9. A winding path connects repeated scenes of speaking, presenting and practising towards a distant figure.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The reps are already there

    People who handle pressure well aren't less tired. They stay present, which is the switch that lets everything you've already learned actually fire.