Career Advice Journal

Tired of being a professional people-pleaser? Here’s a funny, chaotic guide to saying ‘no’ at work, ditching the guilt, and reclaiming your sanity.

As a founder, I am not interested in implementing the latest trend. I am interested in building a resilient, innovative, and humane organization.

Every one of these jobs offers a kind of deal with the devil. A Faustian bargain. Give me your peace of mind, and I’ll give you financial security.

What is it like to work for a micromanager? Your own professional world, once a sprawling continent of possibilities, begins to shrink.

The search for a remote job is not a search for a different way of working. It is a search for a different way of being.

We have to build the technology that connects us, not just isolates us behind more screens. The next decade is going to be a wild ride.

Question the platitudes. Interrogate the assumptions. Be wary of anyone offering a simple, seven-step solution to a complex human problem.

The survival strategy isn’t to learn to code faster than an AI (you won’t) or to write better than a machine (it’s debatable). The survival strategy is to become more human.

Are we on the cusp of a job creation boom not seen since the dawn of the internet itself, or is this just the most elaborate, technically sophisticated game?

If your income is low because you just lost your job, your subsidy could be large. You might find a plan for a fraction of the COBRA cost. You must explore this.

We learn to read between the lines. We treat job ads not as statements of fact, but as the opening move in a very long, very strategic game of chess.

These little things, they’re not really about the things themselves. They are clues that tell a story about your professionalism, your attention to detail.

The interview is the only time you hold any real power. You are a valuable asset they are considering acquiring. Once you sign the contract, that power dynamic flips.