Posts about career
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No Stable Moat
Every layer humans retreat to, AI follows. The question isn't what we're still good at — it's what we teach the next generation when every cognitive advantage has a shelf life.
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What the Weights Don't Know
The value of having read everything is collapsing toward zero. What's left is what you can't extract from a model.
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Spaced Repetition for Beliefs
Most people do spaced repetition for facts but not for beliefs about themselves. Wrong priors calcify because there's no review system.
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The Dimensions Nobody Lists
Title, salary, company, industry — the standard job evaluation checklist misses the things that actually predict whether you'll thrive.
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Revealed Preference in Interviews
What a company has already built tells you more than what they say they're about to build.
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The Easter Egg That Landed
The strongest slide in my interview deck wasn't about what I'd built. It was about how I built the deck itself.
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Compounding: The Only Mental Model
If you could only keep one mental model, keep compounding. It applies to skills, reputation, writing, and tools.
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Play for You, Work for Others
Naval's edge: find the thing that feels like play to you but looks like work to others.
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Philosophy Isn't the Opposite of Practical
The people who examine the system they're inside tend to make better decisions within it.
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The Market Prices Leverage, Not Value
After a decade in financial services, I've stopped believing that what you earn reflects what you contribute.
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You Can Know the Game Is Unfair and Still Play It
Supporting a family in a system you see clearly isn't selling out. It's the most honest position there is.
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You Can't A/B Test Your Life
My career looks like a plan in retrospect. It wasn't. It was a series of pushes, wrong calls, and adjustments.
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Your Wage Reflects Your Scarcity, Not Your Worth
The most successful piece of propaganda in modern economics is the idea that what you earn is what you deserve.
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The Calculator Analogy
Nobody practises arithmetic speed anymore. The same thing is happening to prose, research, and analysis — and it changes what humans should get good at.
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What Feels Like Play
Naval's famous line is easy to nod at. The hard part is actually identifying yours — and being honest about what isn't.
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Banking DS to AI Consulting: What the Transition Actually Teaches You
The operational instincts built in production banking don't belong in the past. They're exactly what makes a practitioner-turned-consultant useful.