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Entrepreneurship Showed Up Uninvited

When the career stops fitting. Polina Ruvinsky spent 20 years climbing the ranks in tech [...]

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Case Story: The Business Operator Reflex That Kept This High Achiever Stuck

When Operator Mode Takes Over Too Soon Kate (name changed for privacy) came to me [...]

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When Competence Interferes with Exploration

How to Shift Out of Operator Mode (Without Muscling Through It) There’s a moment—right between [...]

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The Work Before the Work

If you’ve been thinking about business creation or entrepreneurship, you’ve probably noticed how quickly the [...]

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Why Planning Isn’t the First Move

If you’re a capable, experienced professional, planning probably feels like the obvious place to start. [...]

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The Thing I Was Rewarded For (and What Famine Research Taught Me About Risk)

I just started reading Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan, and pretty quickly had that feeling of, oh… yeah. That explains [...]

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