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Self-Mastery3 steps

AI Introspection Rubric

Point an AI agent at a folder of your own notes to surface criteria you hold implicitly and turn them into a rubric.

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Influence3 steps

Anchor High, Never Split the Difference

Find the ceiling; a reflexive split leaves six figures on the table

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Influence4 steps

Anchor the Pitch to the Exec's Incentives

Find the metric, OKR, or board pressure they own, then show how your idea moves it.

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Influence4 steps

Build Champions Before the Offer

The negotiation starts sooner than you think — plant reciprocity and recruit coaches across the org

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Strategy3 steps

Building Trust Through Speed

Ship an honest 'research preview' early, then visibly iterate on feedback so speed builds trust instead of eroding it.

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Communication4 steps

Control the Channel, Pace, and Field

Never negotiate over email; slow it down and pick the room where you win

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Communication3 steps

Deflect the Number Question

Never name your figure first; make them reveal the range instead

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Leadership3 steps

Deliberate Low-Leverage Leadership

Choose the nitty-gritty tasks 'anyone could do' — because when a senior leader does them, they become high leverage.

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Leadership3 steps

Diagnose Agent Failure as Structural, Not Stupidity

When an agent does the wrong thing, check its context, tools, and scope — not its intelligence.

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Finance4 steps

Expand the Pie with Performance Triggers

Break the salary band by making it 'we' and tying pay to outcomes

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Mindset3 steps

Extract the Chain-of-Thought, Not the Recommendation

Treat every advisor as an LLM: mine their reasoning, not their verdict, because their answer is trained on a different corpus.

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Leadership4 steps

Fast-Thinking / Slow-Thinking Org Split

Split product org into a weekly-shipping AI group and a deliberate-infrastructure group so both speeds coexist.

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Leadership3 steps

Follow the Breadcrumbs and Calibrate Urgency

Act fast on an exec's subtle hints, but ask how strongly they actually feel first.

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Productivity3 steps

Greedy-but-Smart Compute Allocation

Throw hundreds of dollars of inference at high-value problems — the value-to-cost ratio is absurd in your favor.

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Innovation3 steps

Legibility Framework for Spotting Frontier Ideas

Hunt for illegible ideas — the ones with real energy that nobody can quite articulate yet — and translate them.

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Marketing3 steps

Make the End User Feel Like a Winner

Design agents that don't just do tasks — they make the user look good and feel like a winner.

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Productivity3 steps

One Agent Per Lane

Beat context overload by running many narrow, purpose-built agents instead of one do-everything agent.

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Innovation4 steps

Play-First AI Fluency

Build real AI intuition by playing — invent fun side projects, use everything, and share the artifact not the doc.

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Strategy3 steps

Pull the Thread on New Tools

Judge a new AI tool by where it'll be in a week or a month, not where it is on day one.

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Communication3 steps

Ramble-Mode Onboarding

Onboard an AI agent by voice-rambling everything you need, not by wiring up APIs and structured fields.

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Leadership3 steps

Roasting Plus High Standards

Let the team feel safe enough to roast you, then apply high standards without fear — safety makes rigor easier.

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Influence3 steps

Shrink the Change to Build Trust

De-risk a scary idea into a two-week experiment with a fixed check-in date.

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Innovation3 steps

Solve the Problem Behind the Problem

When an agent can't do a task, escalate API-to-browser, then reframe to the underlying need it can solve.

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Communication3 steps

Stewart Plus Two More

Never bring one option; show a Goldilocks three and hold the rest in the appendix.

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Productivity3 steps

Stratified Design Work

Split your time between supporting engineers' execution and setting a 3-6 month vision, not polishing mocks.

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Communication4 steps

The 60-Second Meeting Reset

Buy a context-starved exec 30 seconds of orientation before you pitch.

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Influence5 steps

The Consultative Interview Flip (Sell the Vacation)

Run the interview like an enterprise sale so there is no competition when the offer comes

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Leadership4 steps

The Full-Stack Role Collapse

In the AI era every role needs a minimum baseline in the adjacent two — deep in one, dangerous in the rest.

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Leadership3 steps

The Hire-an-Agent Onboarding Model

Set up an AI agent exactly like you'd onboard a human EA: own identity, delegated access, earned trust.

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Communication3 steps

Themes for Discussion at the Top of the Doc

Bubble up the spiciest 3 topics live; answer the hundred nitpicks offline.

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Strategy4 steps

The Refounding Test

Ask how you'd rebuild AI-native from scratch — then decide whether your legacy asset helps or you should sell.

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Communication3 steps

The Soft Pushback

The one-line, zero-aggression ask that recovers ~20% of comp almost every time

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Leadership4 steps

Three Designer Hiring Archetypes

Hire for one of three profiles — block-shaped generalist, deep-T specialist, or the crack new grad.

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Influence4 steps

Treat the Executive as Your Key User

Run stakeholder conversations as discovery interviews, not approval requests.

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Innovation3 steps

Vibes Before Evals

For a genuinely new AI feature, start with open-ended vibes testing; add evals only once the use-case cluster is clear.

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