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Growth

The skill you stopped using, and the part of it that stayed

Rust is material loss, and that is probably not what happened. One theory in memory research separates how well a thing is learned from whether it comes when called, and only one of those two falls while you are not using it.

12 min read · 17 Sep 2026 · 4 referencesRead

Work

The résumé that reads like you did the work

The document that got you here was written for a reader you could picture. What can fairly be said about the one who opens it now, which is less than the advice pretends, and the column of your own work that is on no page at all.

13 min read · 10 Sep 2026 · 10 referencesRead

Work

The cover letter that sounds like a person

Why templates read as templates even when they are well written, what a hiring manager is listening for in the first paragraph, and the one sentence that cannot be faked.

12 min read · 3 Sep 2026 · 6 referencesRead

Work

The profile that makes someone say you can do that

A professional profile is not read the way it was written. Two of its surfaces do completely separate jobs, and the sentence that moves a stranger is the one they could check and never will.

14 min read · 27 Aug 2026 · 6 referencesRead

Work

The interview answer you already gave

The story you have told four times is the one you trust most and the one least able to survive a follow up. What happens to an account between the day it happened and the fourth time you delivered it, and what to do in the twenty minutes before an interview instead of rehearsing.

12 min read · 20 Aug 2026 · 6 referencesRead

Work

The half of a decision nobody records

Why the decisions you would make again are the ones no system ever captured, what separates a decision from a responsibility, and why your own memory is the first thing working against you.

13 min read · 13 Aug 2026 · 4 referencesRead

Life

The conversation that cost you something

The conversations you did not have shaped your working life more than most of the ones you did, and the research explains both why they stayed with you and why they were never going to happen.

11 min read · 6 Aug 2026 · 5 referencesRead

Life

The decision you would make again

Most of what looks like a decided life was never decided at all. A way of sorting the few real ones from the defaults, and why the decisions you would repeat tell you more than the decisions that worked.

13 min read · 30 Jul 2026 · 5 referencesRead

AI

Before you learn the tool, learn what you do

Every course starts with the software. The research says the software is the smaller half, and that what decides whether a tool helps you or quietly degrades your work is an account of your own job that almost nobody has written down.

12 min read · 23 Jul 2026 · 4 referencesRead
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