The AI Literacy Illusion: Why Critical Thinking is the True Skill Gap
Why teams need diagnostic discipline more than another round of tool tutorials.
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Employment in the New AI World
All published essays and notes on employment in the new ai world and durable methodology.
The Middle Management Reshuffle: Operational Translation in AI-Driven Teams
Why middle managers will be judged less by task tracking and more by their ability to translate leadership intent into accountable AI-assisted work.
Read article →Never Search Alone in the AI-Era Job Market
Why Phyl Terry's community-based job search method is a better response to an anxious, automated hiring market than sending more applications.
Read article →The Freelancer's Moat: Selling Diagnostic Capabilities, Not Output Hours
Why independent professionals need to sell judgment, diagnosis, and decision quality instead of time spent producing deliverables.
Read article →The Rise of the Acumen Specialist
Why the junior developer squeeze is forcing a shift from syntax execution to domain-level judgment.
Read article →The Skills-Based Pivot
Why the decay of traditional credentials under automated execution is forcing a rapid migration toward skills-based hiring.
Read article →The Junior Developer Squeeze
How the disappearance of entry-level coding tasks is forcing a complete redesign of the software engineering apprenticeship.
Read article →Layoffs in the Logic Layer
Analyzing the structural shift in corporate layoffs as automated systems begin to displace white-collar logic workers.
Read article →The 55 Percent Paradox
Why accelerating task execution without developing systemic oversight leads to architectural decay.
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