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To fully understand ourselves, we have to unwind the systems that make us. That includes how performance reviews influence our futures and self-esteem. These antiquated processes stick around because the system maintains a semblance of fairness, is open to interpretation, and places the burden of proof on the less powerful party. But there's a better way to center individual, team, and company growth. So here's how we'd build a performance system from scratch.

Your career leaves clues long before it offers answers. These tools for sharing your career story act as windows into the soul, helping you articulate who you are when you’re at your best, even when that’s hard to describe. For those who feel stuck, untethered, or ready to take authorship of their career, this is an invitation to find your voice before choosing your next step.

Issue No. 3 | Getting sentimental and attracting “why not me” energy into the month of love. What if you channeled compassion inward to fall in love with your own career story—it's scars and strengths? Why it may be time to stop counting yourself out. Also included—an interview with 3x founder & CTO Scott Hertel, predictions for the future of work, and reflections for giving your career a voice.

Get to know the career story of EverMore founder and CTO, Scott Hertel. A three-time founder, Scott approaches building companies with the scientific method—testing ideas, learning quickly, and iterating with care. His story reflects a deep comfort with failure, a bias toward thoughtful experimentation, and an intentional approach to growing ethical, resilient businesses.

Issue No. 2 | Reflection renaissance—stepping back to untangle who you are from who you've been told to be. Work has a way of defining and shaping us. Reflection is the way out. Also in this issue: new year rituals, the thin line of cults and culture and why it's scary to make a company your identity, and an interview with cofounder, Kelsey Peterson.

​​A reflective guide to giving peer or manager feedback without deluding or soul-crushing others. Sort out your own biases, calibrate overly positive or overly negative takes, and find where folks thrive. Includes prompts and exercises to craft clear feedback, reduce projection, and help direct reports navigate hard notes with dignity and momentum.

Episode 8 of Dear EverMore is a must listen for any leader or manager who wants to know how to talk to their team with empathy when the news cycle is tough. We tackle the external structures, systems, and situations influencing workplace policies and the collective mood. It's a call for leaders to acknowledge that politics is in everything and resources on how to respond with care when the world gets heavy.

EverMore doesn’t believe in performance reviews as a measure of a life’s work. But we do believe in the stories you tell about your impact—and the way those stories shape what becomes possible. This guide is about honoring yourself inside a process you didn’t create, so you can reflect honestly, speak clearly, and carry your career forward with intention.

Issue No. 1 | Welcome to the first EverMore Edit—our little slice of the web to share practical advice, career stories, future of work premonitions, and product updates as we build-in-public.

How bias, secrecy, and old pay systems sustain inequality - and how we can rebuild compensation around dignity, transparency, and trust.

Episode 7 of Dear EverMore tackles an emotional topic—what’s wrong with feedback at work. Feedback often feels hidden or manipulative in workplaces, leading to harmful cycles; true growth requires honest self‑knowledge, discerning personal feedback from others’ projections, and giving feedback from a place of abundance and intentionality.

Episode 5 of Dear EverMore is about how power, identity, and carelessness create inane, weird, and horrifying workplace stories that can shape our futures. The hosts and listeners share tales that will make you laugh, cry, and gasp. Along the way you'll meet characters like the vampire, puppeteer, and the doppelgänger. Navigating the horrors around you to be the "final girl" of corporate is what EverMore is here for.

Career Story Interview with Kelsey Peterson, People & Culture Leader and Cofounder of EverMore.

Episode 4 of Dear EverMore dives into the murky intentions of performance reviews and why they're not a reliable exercise. We talk about the anxieties and impossibilities of using reviews to serve competing needs like compliance, compensation, retention, and development. With so much on the line, everyone becomes a performer.

Most of us gather feedback the same way. We ask, "Do you have any feedback for me?" and in that moment, honesty gets sucked out of the room, and all we hear is a "nope." Instead, learn how to elicit directed, honest feedback from the right people while understanding your own intentions and authentic career desires.

Episode 3 of Dear EverMore dives into the thin line between company culture and cults. It's a conversation guided by Courtney Branson based on experiences growing up in a religious sect and later becoming a culture designer. In particular, what happens when belonging depends on agreeing with certain values, behaviors, and traditions?

Episode 2 of Dear EverMore is an ode to the thread of curiosity and being a forever learner. Both hosts devise their own personal curriculum to explore the ideas and concepts that are catching their interest right now. They share tips for how to build your own curriculum.

Career Story Interview with Courtney Branson, Culture Designer and Cofounder of EverMore.

Episode 1 of Dear EverMore introduces a new founder-led podcast that explores how work shapes our humanity, identity, and futures. Season one features diary-esque confessions, guest speakers, and career advice plucked from their collective three decades in HR, hiring, and leadership.

It’s time to reimagine the modern work experience lest the satire and science fiction stories become prophecies.