Welcome to The New Leader, where I write without a filter about leadership, the broken hiring system, career reinvention, and what it actually costs to keep showing up.
I write about the part nobody briefs you on. The politics, the tradeoffs, the things leaders don't say out loud. Leadership isn't a gift or a title. It's just people trying to figure it out and not quitting when it gets hard.
That's the new leader. And it's all of us.
The summer I fell in love
The summer I fell in love with graphic design — not on a screen, but by hand, with wax and X-Acto knives and darkroom chemistry — turned out to be my first real lesson in transformation.
Your AI intern lies
I caught my AI intern in a lie last week. A company it described—specific funding round, CEO profile, everything—turned out not to exist. That's not a glitch. That's how large language models work. Here's what hallucinations are, why they happen, and how to catch them before they cost you.