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AI Rep-Loop Compression

Build AI tools that give you feedback 80% as good as an expert's, on demand, to get years of judgment-building reps in a fraction of the time.

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Anchor High, Never Split the Difference

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

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Behavioral Activation

Act first, then feel better — keep a pre-written list of small actions that reliably reverse a low mood.

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Broadcast How Leaders Think (Mental-Model Transparency)

Teach your team how key leaders think — not just what they decided — via weekly verbatim-plus-interpretation notes.

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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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Context Over Control: Debate Upstream of the Solution

Empower teams by aligning on goal, hypothesis, and data—never by prescribing the solution.

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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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Self-Mastery4 steps

Counterprogram the Narrative (Take a Punch)

When you fear someone thinks less of you, take one small action that proves the opposite instead of litigating the past.

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Deflect the Number Question

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

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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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Productivity5 steps

Focused Hours Over Long Hours

Overwork lets you skip the hard work of deciding what matters — force the constraint that makes you decide

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Leadership4 steps

Habit-Formation Model for Team Behavior Change

Drive team adoption (e.g. of AI) with behavioral psychology, not education: consistency, low friction, and a powerful reward loop.

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Communication4 steps

Magic Questions (Statements That End in 'Do You Agree?')

To understand how someone thinks, feed them statements ending in 'is that right?' rather than asking open-ended questions.

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Leadership4 steps

Mastery Before Management

Get technical skill into your bones before you leave IC — then stay technical by listening, not coding

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Platforms Are Products

When to start a platform team, who staffs it, and the impact metrics that keep it honest

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Productivity4 steps

Processing Over Memory: A Task System for the Overwhelmed Manager

Write everything down at the moment it's owed, groom into logical chunks, and free your head for thinking not remembering.

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Influence4 steps

Product-Manage the Platform Team From the Side

Frustrated by a slow internal platform team? Supply the product management they don't have

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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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Communication4 steps

The Four PM Annoyances

The four PM behaviours that quietly destroy engineering trust — and the fix for each

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Innovation4 steps

The Gravity Model for Zero-to-One Products

Ship new products with tiny shielded teams, then let traction—not headcount—pull in resources.

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Productivity4 steps

The One-on-One Diet

Hold direct-report 1:1s sacred; cut nearly all the rest — relationship-by-1:1 doesn't scale

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Strategy5 steps

The Rewrite Trap and the Staged Evolution Plan

Never go away for a year to rebuild — uplift well-contained pieces of the system instead

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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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Strategy5 steps

The Strategy Contract

A one-page doc sitting between vision and roadmap that every pod writes for itself.

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Communication4 steps

The Trade-Off Menu: Turn a Velocity Demand Into Leverage

When leadership wants everything faster, hand them a menu of what you'll do and what you won't—and make them choose.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Think From First Principles by Writing

Close the laptop, write the question at the top of a blank page, and answer it before Googling anything.

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Productivity4 steps

Velocity Guardrails: Ship Freely Until the Metrics Go Red

Standardize a few quality metrics per team; below the line they ship anything, above it they fix before they ship.

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Mindset4 steps

You Are Not the Protagonist (Operationalize, Don't Impose)

Your job isn't to convince everyone of your vision — it's to understand the leader's vision and find the spiky places you can shape it.

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