From the Couch

Career notes, written down.

Half notebook, half group chat. Short arguments, questions we can't drop, notes from episodes, letters and things worth your attention.

Observation

Every promotion is not necessarily progress

A short note on the difference between moving up and moving toward, and why the two get confused so easily in a career.

20 May 20263 min read
Essay

The small menu: why most of us choose from careers we already know

On the hidden cost of career defaults, and how to start seeing paths that were not shown to you at school.

6 May 20268 min read
Newsletter

Uncommon paths we found this month

Edition 04: three roles we did not know existed, one career change we watched happen, and a reader question about moving industries without starting over.

22 April 20266 min read
Episode notes

The ladder metaphor, annotated

The references, half-finished thoughts and one statistic we could not verify from EP. 01.

8 April 20264 min read
Recommendations

Five things worth your attention this month

A book about work we keep quoting, a career rethink that ruined a dinner conversation, and a podcast for people who want more options.

25 March 20265 min read

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