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Perspective · Career Paths
Optionality: choose a first job for the doors it opens, not the title it gives
A perspective on the first decision most graduates get backwards. The best first job is rarely the most impressive one; it is the one from which the most second jobs are reachable.
8 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
Explainer · Career Paths
Lateral moves, explained: when sideways is the fastest way up
A move with the same title and similar pay looks like standing still. Done for the right reason, it is how people acquire the second skill that makes the next promotion obvious.
29 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Playbook · Career Paths
A personal board of advisors: four seats, filled on purpose
One mentor cannot see your whole career. Four people with different vantage points, consulted a few times a year, can. Here is who sits where, and how to ask.
25 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Playbook · Career Paths
The two-week energy audit: find the work you should do more of
"Follow your passion" is useless advice because passion is an outcome, not an input. What you can measure is which tasks give energy back and which take it. Two weeks of honest notes is enough to see the pattern.
21 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Playbook · Career Paths
Choosing a first industry when everything looks the same
From outside, industries blur into logos and salaries. Three questions separate them fast, and none of them is "what is prestigious".
8 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Explainer · Career Paths
Ready to pivot, or just tired? A diagnostic
Half of career-change urges are actually job-change urges, and a quarter are rest deficits. A framework for telling them apart before you pay switching costs.
15 Jul 2026 · 6 min read