Happy New Year! It is wonderful to be back with you for the first time in 2026. Looking back, 2025 was a year of profound duality — as satisfying and rewarding as it was demanding and frustrating. As we move into the months ahead, my goal is for this newsletter to serve as your stable...

Every meaningful career has two distinct phases: building your runway and then taking off. The first phase is about accumulating resources, skills, credibility and options. The second is about lift — choosing a direction and actually flying. Phase One: Building Your Runway Building the runway isn’t wasted effort — it is essential. This is where...

During major transitions — whether in career or life — you are essentially building a plane while falling through the sky. Most people think they need more courage, better ideas, or stronger networks. But the real need is for infrastructure that works even when your brain doesn’t. Without this infrastructure, transition stress — emotional, identity-based,...

We are drowning in AI noise. Every day brings a new flood of “top ChatGPT prompts,” tool benchmarks, polarized debates and capability hype. But the real problem is not the volume — it is what we are paying attention to. We obsess over what AI systems can do, while ignoring the incentive structures, governance gaps...