AI did not commoditize expertise. It commoditized the evidence of it. And most of us built our careers on the evidence. There is a distinction most AI-and-work conversations refuse to make. …
Learning to Unlearn: The Decommissioning of Expertise
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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Narrative Design: Building the Story That Outlasts the Title
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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The Map Continues: The Power of the Translator
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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Narrative Lag: Career Strategy After the Ladder Fails
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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A Year of Integration: Closing 2025, Opening 2026
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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