All posts tagged: Culture

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Welcome to the Hiring Simulator — the Strategy Game Nobody Enjoys

Published by Trotzendorff

There’s this sto­ry we keep telling about the job mar­ket: it’s tough out there. Fine. I can live with that. And I’m say­ing this as some­one cur­rent­ly in it — reori­ent­ing on the way to my next role. I’m hav­ing con­ver­sa­tions, doing calls, send­ing appli­ca­tions, wait­ing, look­ing close­ly at what’s out there. And there’s this slight­ly sur­re­al expe­ri­ence of try­ing to meet a sys­tem where it is, with­out let­ting it define me.

Person sitting at a table using a laptop with the ChatGPT interface open on the screen; a pair of glasses rests beside the laptop in a cushioned booth.

Not AI Is the Threat — People Are

Published by Trotzendorff

»I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best under­stood as fears about cap­i­tal­ism.« When I read that line from Ted Chi­ang recent­ly, it land­ed because it pulls the mask off the mon­ster. A lot of what we call »fear of AI« is real­ly fear of incen­tives: who funds the sys­tems, who deploys them, who ben­e­fits when they scale, and who gets hurt when they fail.

Lessons from Trial and Error: Building a Better Team Culture

Published by Trotzendorff

Lead­er­ship is a jour­ney of tri­al and error. Over the years, I’ve exper­i­ment­ed with count­less ideas to make work bet­ter for my team. Many didn’t work—and that’s okay. But today, I want to share three things that did. These small adjust­ments might not seem rev­o­lu­tion­ary, but they’ve stood the test of time. And they have made a difference.

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Unlocking Ideas

Published by Trotzendorff

Have you ever had an idea while you were run­ning? If so, you’re not alone. Like tak­ing a show­er or going for a walk, run­ning is one of those activ­i­ties that stim­u­late cre­ativ­i­ty. «The hours we spend on our feet have a way of unlock­ing ideas that would oth­er­wise be out of reach,» so it says in a text about the «Track­smith Fel­low­ship». The inde­pen­dent run­ning brand from New Eng­land has designed this pro­gram to sup­port run­ners with cre­ative ambi­tions. But why?