Careers and Hiring
64 episodes
#6090: Unconventional Pitch Tactics That Actually Win Clients
From ditching slide decks to wheeling in a day's worth of paper — a ladder of pitch tactics, from mildly odd to career-ending.
#6083: The Second Noun: Where AI Careers Are Still Empty
Everyone's headline says "AI consultant." The real openings sit where AI attaches to a second noun you already know cold.
#6046: Five Jobs, One Laptop: The Overemployed Playbook
A British civil servant allegedly held five full-time jobs at once — until his make-up started separating on a Teams call. What the overemployed pl...
#6045: The Two-Week Job You Never Explain
A White House press secretary lasted five days. What the roll call of spectacular flameouts says about the two-week gap on your CV.
#6030: Who Do You Actually Hire to Train a Model?
Research engineers and data engineers are diverging. Here's who you actually hire to train a model — and why the org chart keeps changing.
#5937: The Fine-Tuning Career: Titles, Skills, and What It Pays
The job above the labeling layer exists — it just doesn't have one name. What it takes, what it pays, and how to sell it.
#5927: Where Generalists Get Priced: Inside the FDE Role
A $485K median salary for a job with no clean definition — and why the résumé can't capture it.
#5590: What Alaskan Crab Deckhands Actually Do
18-hour shifts, 800-pound steel pots, and a pay structure that's basically a lottery ticket. The real job behind the TV show.
#5324: Retention by the Numbers: Who Actually Trains Their People?
Most small organizations run training programs — they just don't call them that. What the data says about who invests in talent, and why it pays.
#5300: When the Interviewer Isn't Real
AI avatars are already interviewing job candidates — often without saying so. The disclosure toggle ships off by default.
#5097: Who Actually Gets Paid to Test Hardware?
Real testing vs. affiliate content — and whether AI can finally separate genuine reviews from the noise.
#4990: How to Flip an Interview in the First 5 Minutes
What happens when you stop waiting for permission and start running the interview from the opening handshake?
#4989: The Easiest Rides in the Workforce
High salary, minimal effort, and jobs where doing nothing means everything is going right.
#4922: The Strangest Corporate Team-Building Exercises That Actually Happened
Trust falls, human knots, and apology rituals — the documented exercises that companies actually run on their employees.
#4725: Software Evaluation as a Career Path
The hidden career track for people who love evaluating SaaS tools, building matrices, and becoming the go-to software decision-maker.
#4649: Why Open Source Heroes Can't Afford Rent
The code running the internet is maintained by people earning a dollar a year. Why does the market fail to reward our digital commons?
#4550: Inside the City-Sized Employer: What 1.6M Workers Feels Like
Who's the largest employer in history? And what's it actually like to be one of 1.6 million employees?
#4313: Did You Really Build That App? AI Imposter Syndrome
You built a working app with AI in a weekend. So why does it feel like you don't deserve to charge for it?
#4251: How to Run a Job Interview Like a Spy
Three elicitation techniques that reveal what a company is really like — without sounding like an audit.
#3850: The Cheap Beer That Tells You Everything
Why mediocre beer at happy hour says more about a startup than any nap pod ever could.
#3849: The 70% Disengagement: Why Most Workers Are Checked Out
70% of workers are disengaged globally. Gallup's 2026 report reveals it's not pay or perks—it's your manager.
#3848: When Freelance Success Hides Stagnation
Making good money freelancing? That steady income might be hiding a dangerous skill atrophy spiral.
#3847: The Collaboration Tax: Remote Work's Hidden Cost
Coworking memberships are up 12% but utilization is down 8%. What's the real cost of professional isolation?
#3839: Bad Bosses Are a Feature, Not a Bug
70% of managers are rated ineffective. The data shows it's a systemic failure, not bad luck.