career

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.

The value of having read everything is collapsing toward zero. What's left is what you can't extract from a model.

Most people do spaced repetition for facts but not for beliefs about themselves. Wrong priors calcify because there's no review system.

Title, salary, company, industry — the standard job evaluation checklist misses the things that actually predict whether you'll thrive.

What a company has already built tells you more than what they say they're about to build.

The strongest slide in my interview deck wasn't about what I'd built. It was about how I built the deck itself.

If you could only keep one mental model, keep compounding. It applies to skills, reputation, writing, and tools.

Naval's edge: find the thing that feels like play to you but looks like work to others.

The people who examine the system they're inside tend to make better decisions within it.

After a decade in financial services, I've stopped believing that what you earn reflects what you contribute.

Supporting a family in a system you see clearly isn't selling out. It's the most honest position there is.

My career looks like a plan in retrospect. It wasn't. It was a series of pushes, wrong calls, and adjustments.

The most successful piece of propaganda in modern economics is the idea that what you earn is what you deserve.

Nobody practises arithmetic speed anymore. The same thing is happening to prose, research, and analysis — and it changes what humans should get good at.

Naval's famous line is easy to nod at. The hard part is actually identifying yours — and being honest about what isn't.

The operational instincts built in production banking don't belong in the past. They're exactly what makes a practitioner-turned-consultant useful.