Observation
The AI story everyone keeps telling is dramatic and clean and mostly wrong. Over 5,700 companies announced mass layoffs in 2024. Forty percent of white-collar job seekers failed to secure a single interview. Here is what actually happened, and what to do about it.
8 min read · Career transitions, AI displacement, Job market
Essay
A physician seeing 40 patients a day is excellent at pattern recognition, holding ambiguity, translating complex information under pressure. These are not physician skills. Most people are qualified for things they have never thought to apply to. The problem is always the translation.
9 min read · Career pivots, Transferable skills, Healthcare
Field Notes
There is no keyword for "made everything slightly more functional by being impossible to rattle." The hiring process was not built for people whose competence is hard to articulate. It was built for legibility. Here is what that costs organizations, and what reading the full picture actually looks like.
8 min read · Quiet competence, Hiring systems, Experienced operators
