AI Strategy, Organizational Knowledge & Digital Leadership
The old career script is legible but increasingly unreliable. You can follow it closely and still end up somewhere that doesn't quite fit. Not because you failed to execute, but because the underlying structure shifted while you were executing it.
These essays are for practitioners who want to think more deliberately about how they're building their professional lives, not just advancing through them.
That means craft, identity, and the choices that don't show up on a performance review: how you develop expertise, how you position yourself inside a field that's actively being redefined, and how to stay oriented when the technology around you keeps rewriting what a given role actually requires. Product management, delivery, and growth work all live here. So does the broader question of what a career is even for.
Unlearning is not a failure of memory, but the intentional decommissioning of mental infrastructure that has become a barrier to integration. In my last essay, The Field That Saw This Coming, I …
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The Postcard Problem In the first piece of this series, we named the problem: Narrative Lag, the gap between who you are becoming and the story you are still telling. In the second, we explored The …
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Most of us were raised on the myth of the "Deep Lane." We were told that the safest way to build a career was to find a niche, dig a very deep hole, and become the undisputed master of whatever was at …
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About a year ago, I started noticing something subtle before I could finally put a name to it. It felt like trying to navigate a room where someone had moved the furniture in the dark, I knew the …
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As 2025 closed and 2026 opened, I found myself less interested in retrospectives and more focused on orientation. Last year clarified something I had been circling for a while. Progress is not …
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In 1951, Solomon Asch ran a simple experiment that refuses to die. He put a single student in a room with a group of actors pretending to mistake one line for another, and he watched ordinary people …
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