#strategy
Every post tagged "strategy".
69 posts · showing 21–30
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The Jobs That Get Created Are Hard to Name in Advance
"New jobs will be created" sounds like faith because the examples are missing. There's a structural reason for that — and one observable signal that's better than any forecast.
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Which Jobs Go First: A Framework Rather Than a List
Lists of at-risk occupations age badly because exposure operates on tasks, not titles. Four properties score any task — and two people with the same job can land on opposite sides.
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The Career Risk of Being Excellent at the Thing Being Automated
The most exposed engineers are often the best ones — not despite the skill but because of what the skill is. And the feedback stays good right up until the market for it changes.
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If There's a Bubble, What Survives the Pop?
Whether it's a bubble is unknowable from here. More useful: assuming a correction, which parts survive — and previous cycles have a consistent answer about what separates the two.
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Juniors in an Agent World: The Path That Still Works
"Learn AI tools" is the most common advice and the wrong one — everyone has them. What addresses the actual hiring objection is different, and the path inside is narrower but shorter than it used to be.
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Why Systems Thinking Is Appreciating in Value
"Systems thinking" is vague enough to dismiss until you name the mechanism: agents work locally, and cross-cutting consequences are structurally outside their context. That gap is a person's job.
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Becoming the Person Who Decides What Gets Built
The most common career advice in this shift, with the instructions attached. The conversation isn't gated by title — it's under-resourced, and one specific move changes outcomes immediately.
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Skills to Deepen and Skills to Stop Investing In
The divest list is harder to write than the invest list and more useful — because the default is to keep investing in what you're already good at, and that's often the exposed thing.
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Staying Employable When Code Generation Is Nearly Free
"Develop judgment, move up the stack" is true and unactionable. Six specific moves instead — and the hedge and the bet turn out to be the same actions.
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Lock-In Risk in Agent Tooling, and How to Keep Optionality
The API call is trivially portable — the coupling forms in four other places, and the worst one isn't technical at all. One question tells you how exposed you are.