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I’ll admit it: I’m a positive skeptic. Often, my experiences with "genius" have simply left me feeling a bit stupid. I get that same prickly sensation when hanging out with certain leaders—the ones who hold rigid visions of what leadership should look like, how it should sound, and what it must value. For a long time, I’ve been told that my collaborative nature is a weakness. In a world obsessed with win-lose dynamics, the idea of abundance is often dismissed as soft. But I believe our...

AI is about to expose the most fragile segment of the 2026 workforce: The W2 Contractor. When budgets tighten or "Agentic AI" workflows deploy, contractors are almost always the first to go. It’s not because they lack value. It’s because organizations see them as "flexible labor"—the easiest lever to pull when the roadmap shifts.' But AI is accelerating that shift. Some roles are disappearing. Others are being "compressed" into tools. If you are a contractor, consultant, or project-based...

For a long time, I believed in meritocracy. I believed that if you worked hard, kept learning, and showed up with integrity… you would be rewarded. And I did all of it. I was the employee who: stayed late (and didn’t complain) worked weekends—sometimes happily paid for my own coding courses invested in learning simply because I loved it I wasn’t doing it for recognition. I genuinely believed in growth. In contribution. In being part of something meaningful. And the organizations I worked for...