Work & Career
Reputation, and how it is actually built
It accumulates from unremarkable behaviour repeated, and the largest single component is whether people can predict you.
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Burnout, negotiation, feedback and the politics nobody teaches.
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Ambition, at a sustainable size
The costs of a demanding career are real and are frequently paid unconsciously, and the accounting is worth doing deliberately.
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Being new at something in public
The discomfort of visible incompetence is what stops most people learning after about thirty, and it is largely a misreading of the audience.
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Remote and hybrid work, honestly
The arguments on both sides overstate, and the parts that are genuinely well established are narrower and more useful than either.
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Changing direction mid-career
The obstacles are more practical and less psychological than the genre suggests, and the practical ones are addressable.
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Delegating without abandoning
The two failure modes are keeping everything and handing it over without context, and both are more common than doing it properly.
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Working with a difficult manager
The relationship with a direct manager predicts job satisfaction more than almost anything else, and it is largely outside your control.
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The first ninety days in a new role
The instinct is to demonstrate value quickly. The evidence suggests spending the early period differently produces better outcomes.
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Career decisions with incomplete information
You cannot know whether a job suits you before doing it, which makes the decision a question of information gathering rather than of insight.
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Managing sideways: influence without authority
Most of the work that requires cooperation involves people who do not report to you, and the tools are different.
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Negotiating without being unpleasant
Most people negotiate badly because they treat it as a contest, prepare only their position, and never ask what the other side actually needs.
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Burnout is not just tiredness
A specific occupational phenomenon with defined components, frequently used as a synonym for exhaustion, and responding to different things.