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Erin PhinneyJune 20263 min read
I Don’t Want to Spend My Life Reading Things Written by Robots. I Do Want Them to Read Me.
Agentic search and AI recruiters are forming an opinion of you whether you participate or not. If the robots can’t read your story, they’ll get it wrong — or leave you out of the conversation entirely.
Erin PhinneyMay 20264 min read
Control Your Narrative or AI Will Assemble One for You.
There is a version of you being assembled by AI right now. You did not write it. If you have not authored your story, you are letting a machine hallucinate one.
Erin PhinneyApril 20266 min read
Nobody Can Prove Anything Anymore.
Professional credibility is collapsing. The resume is just the most visible casualty. What happens when nobody can prove anything and everyone needs to?
Erin PhinneyMarch 20265 min read
Effort Is the Point.
What can you trust when nothing takes effort? In a world of seamless creation, we are drawn to things that show effort, and even a bit of mess.
Peter ZottoMarch 20264 min read
The Game Is Rigged.
The systems that were supposed to reward talent now reward presentation. AI has made it trivially easy to look great on paper. What happens when everyone does?
Erin PhinneyFebruary 20264 min read
You’re Great at Your Job. Can You Prove It?
You have spent years building career capital. But unlike financial capital, there is no balance sheet for it. No ledger. No proof.