Mediocrity at Scale
She put in the kind of work no automation could produce.
Better at Work
How to work better, job insecurities, job and career advice
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#188Do you recognize any of these "games" being played inside your org?
Someone gains influence by attaching themselves to a popular person.
#188How to Find People
Break one habit your network has you filed under.
Opinionated advice for 2026 graduates
“Become the good hang ... Relationships are how you’ll escape the hellfire of a thousand-person LinkedIn resume stack.”
What strategy directors expect from your AI skills
Familiarity is no longer a flex, it's the floor.
Thinking Tools
A collection of tools that are useful in creative problem solving which generally follows the steps of clarify, ideate, develop, and implement.
Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work
“Figure out who is seeking value and create it for them.”
After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back
“What can the future look like for me?”
Don't Crowd My Screen: Etiquette For...
If you didn’t create the doc, you’re a guest in someone else’s kitchen. Act accordingly.
In an always-on culture, employees try 'microshifting' to reclaim personal lives
“Sometimes the break’s when most of the work will get done in your head, because you’re not sitting in front of a laptop just staring at a screen going, ‘I can’t come up with anything,”
Creative Career Conundrums: What can juniors do to compete with AI?
“Junior talent will always be necessary ... for providing fresh perspective.”
Hot Streaks in Your Career Don't Happen by Accident
“Our data shows that people ought to explore a bunch of things at work, deliberate about the best fit for their skills, and then exploit what they’ve learned”
Bed of Nails
Organisations tend to drift, by human bias and default, towards Pointies at the top and Softies underneath.
Monotasking: Inside the Box Excerpt
Constraints push the brain beyond its default tendencies, forcing deeper problem-solving
Beware software brain
“You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences”
Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026
“Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026. period.”
AI will make your marketing team faster and worse
A sharp take on how AI acceleration might compromise marketing quality and strategic thinking
Are You Coal or a Horse? The AI Job Paradox
“When technology leads to huge numbers of jobs disappearing quickly, bad things happen”
Artist Corporations
“A new type of company designed for creative people. Artists keep majority control, intellectual property is protected by law, and the artistic mission comes first.”
The Semantic Drift of The Strategist
“So I grabbed 100 titles from 2nd-degree connections on LinkedIn that had strategy somewhere in the visible profile and ran some analysis.”
There's a graveyard of half-resolved questions
“Ideas are cheap right now. Getting the people in charge to make explicit decisions is the hard part.”
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
“On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.”
Sloperators
“If you give steroids to a Little League baseball player, they’re still a ten-year-old boy. Give them to Barry Bonds and he breaks every record in the books.”
Selling Strategy Without the Sleaze
“You are remembered for the help you provide, not the noise you make.”
How to Drop Killer Workshops
“Market the workshop activities like you are teaching children.”
The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Andy Pressman
“It’s in your interest to be a sicko, making work for other sickos.”
How to Drop Killer Workshops
“Market the workshop activities like you are teaching children.”
More links
- The Realities of AI Deck Creation Rob Salmon Saved #189
- This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are. The Wall Street Journal Saved #188
- Why Are We Playing Video Games About Work? The New York Times Saved #185
- We Ran the Numbers. Remote Work Is Bad for Us. The New York Times Saved #185
- i don't trust people who schedule calls at 8am TikTok Saved #185
- The Strategy & Planning Scrapbook STRAT_SCRAPS Saved #182
- Management consultants are the looksmaxxers of the business world TikTok Saved #182
- Mondays at the office trust. Saved #181
- The many joys of small talk The Financial Times Saved #181
- Anxious Parents Are Spending More Than $50,000 to Land Their Kid a Job Bloomberg Saved #179
- Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don't Bet on It Now. The Wall Street Journal Saved #177
- Young People Are Switching Careers to Avoid Being Replaced by AI The Wall Street Journal Saved #176