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Short pieces on how open positions actually cost you.

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Tagscareer 8 risk 6 decision 5 money 5 time 4 negotiation 3 method 2 focus 1 relationship 1

Fourteen inputs, one positionWhat intake asks, why it asks it, and what it refuses to ask.18d ago5 mindecision · method

The cost of an open positionWaiting reads as prudence and behaves as loss. Here is the arithmetic.20d ago4 mintime · risk

An org-chart fragment with two fading escalation arrows and a shortfall gap under a rule labelled BAR.

Your best friend works for you and he is not good at the jobYou have known for five months. Every week you do not act, the eventual conversation gets worse and your authority with everyone else gets…25 JUL · 13:256 mincareer · negotiation

A ten-cell meter with seven filled, labelled 7/10, beside a percent sign struck through.

Confidence 7/10 is not a 70% chanceWhat the number on every read actually measures, why it is not a probability, and the one way you can catch it lying.members26 MAY · 08:456 minmethod · risk

A shallow nine-year trajectory line with a marker at year 31 and three dotted projections.

You are 31 and you think you picked the wrong careerIn a 2017 LinkedIn survey, 75% of people aged 25 to 33 reported a quarter-life crisis and 61% named career. That number is the argument…18 MAY · 11:156 mincareer · time

A two-column ledger with an incremented figure beside a square clock dial reset to zero.

They counter-offered and now you do not know what you wantedA counter-offer is not a decision about money. It is your employer paying to reset the clock on a decision you already made.09 MAY · 16:306 mincareer · money

A stepped capital burn line descending from 40K and crossing a red STOP threshold.

You want to put $40,000 into your own thingThe number is not the risk. The risk is that you have not written down what a failure looks like, so you will not be able to tell when you…01 MAY · 10:206 minmoney · risk

Two block-diagram panels divided by a vertical hairline, with four week markers ruled beneath.

You and your co-founder want different companiesThe split is already happening; the only open question is whether it happens on paper or through attrition. A four-week protocol, and the…20 APR · 07:557 mincareer · money

Eighteen identical monthly columns under a flat reference line, the last one marked in red.

You have been deciding whether to leave her for eighteen monthsThe length of the deliberation is itself the most informative number in the file. What it means, and the one reading of it that lets you…11 APR · 19:406 minrelationship · time

A twelve-segment runway gauge with four months filled, beside an empty checkbox labelled FIRST MOVE.

You want to quit your job and you do not have a plan"Get a plan first" is advice that keeps men in jobs for years. The actual requirement is smaller and you can write it on one index card.02 APR · 08:056 mincareer · risk

A schematic countdown of nine day cells, five struck out, above two unequal bars labelled CASH and SCOPE.

You can't decide on the job offer and the deadline is FridayFive more days will not produce the information you are waiting for. Here are the three things that would, and how long each one actually…24 MAR · 09:106 mincareer · money

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