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I would rather hire somebody who gives a shit than somebody with 20 years of experience who gives zero fucks. Experience matters, but care shows up in curiosity,…

AI tools are already inside the company, whether leadership has approved them or not. If companies do not provide a real path, shadow workflows and data risk follow.

Clients can do more themselves now. Good. The first 90 percent is getting easier. The messy last 10 percent is where communication, judgment, and trust still matter.

AI will not save lazy people from doing the work. It will make serious people more dangerous because they can take harder reps, build better systems, and keep…

I did not expect to be running a Discord server as mission control for humans and agents. But here we are, and it is working better than I…

AI job titles are not keeping up with agents, judgment, business context, and the people who can still ship without creating cleanup.

The old agency lanes still exist. Websites. SEO. Ads. Copy. Retainers. But in 2026, the real work is shifting toward judgment, orchestration, trust, systems, speed, and knowing how…

Tools are not the moat anymore. Automation is not the moat. Even knowing AI will not stay a moat forever. The durable advantage is the person who knows…

Perfection sounds premium, but real work needs clearer standards: excellence, reliability, care, and the judgment to deliver under constraints.

Forward Deployment Engineer is a messy title because the work is messy. To me, it means operational capability under uncertainty: understanding systems, communicating with humans, integrating tools, debugging…
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