Analytics & Insights.
Analytics, insights, and ideas on how people, systems, and technology evolve together. Where strategy meets practice, exploring the workforce, change management, and the future of work.
Beta Insights.
Tech Fluency: It’s Not What to Offload. It’s What to Protect.
Meet Bob: thirty years of expertise, zero malice, one AI-generated section of a critical report — and the failure mode every organization is deploying at scale without knowing it.
2026 Workforce Insights: Burning Questions
Ten insights on the workforce questions keeping professionals up at night—and what they mean for 2026.
AI Resistance: The Lighthouse Is Out
Are we sending the right signals for AI adoption? And is it creating or mitigating resistance?
Why a Sandbox? The Power of Play in Adult Learning
Exploration of play and sandbox environments for adult learning.
Beta Analytics.
The Great Stay Dashboard.
Tracking the macro unfreeze against the lived experience.The market is unfreezing — the experience is not.
Quits rate continues to hover near the historical floor. The Great Stay is real. Workers are staying put — not by choice, but by conditions.
Reported job openings sit near the 2010s norm, not above it. That baseline is the story: employers are listinglike it’s a normal market, but hiring rates say they’re not actually moving. The gap between listing and hiring is where the signal gets loud.
The gap between data and experience. Jobs data can look good at the macro level. This is the mainstream media take. But the micro experience of each applicant can still be frustrating, demoralizing, and often painful. Both truths can coexist. Quits rate is part of the story; I’ll explore more.
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Sources: BLS JOLTS, Employment Situation Report.
Field notes.
Are Trades a Bet on Today Borrowed Against Tomorrow?
August 2026002The Watermark Paradox
August 202600361.4: The Quiet Exit
August 2026004America Has a Back-Pay Crisis
July 2026005Cognitive Depth vs. Temporary Speed
July 2026006How to Ask Your Leaders for What You Need During Disruption
June 2026007Meritocracy Cannot Survive a Market of Unverified Experts
June 2026008The Threat to Meritocracy Isn't DEI. It's Your ATS.
June 2026009What Leadership Composition Reveals
May 2026010Does the hiring market feel broken to you? That's because it is.
May 2026011The Great Stay Destroyed Workforce Mobility
May 2026012America is Experiencing AI Burnout
April 2026013Bots Battling Bots
April 2026014Diversity of experience is your human advantage over AI.
April 2026015“If Claude Doesn’t Come Up Soon”
March 2026016People Recession. Corporate Boom.
March 2026017Recalibration or Shadow Cut?
February 2026018The Validation Trap
February 2026019Pay Transparency Theater
January 2026020Trades are the 2026 Power Play
January 2026021The Middle is Vanishing
January 2026022Staying isn’t Loyalty
January 2026023The Employee-Leadership Divide
January 2026024Silence at the Top
January 2026025Hybrid Creep
January 2026026Networking Won’t Save You
December 2025027Fall Forward
December 2025028The Painful Reality of Leading
November 2025029They're calling it the "Great Stay”
October 2025030Candidate experience matters
September 2025We are at an inflection point where we need to decide, as a society, the difference between access and accountability. The difference between actual merit and a good prompt.
— Karida Palmer
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