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Welcome to Career Diaries: Noa Stisin spills her wisdom and career lore. From living across the globe, working in HR, becoming a mom, and starting her coaching company, Rewriting Childhood—Noa believes in order to have healthier, kinder, and more grounded leaders, we need to start by reshaping their childhood experiences and how they see children.

Will AI take your job? We don’t think so, but we do think it’s being misused. AI is great at pattern recognition and being a thought partner, but it can’t create something truly novel or replace the human element. The real concern? Companies laying off workers expecting AI to fill the gap, and AI amplifying the bias already baked into our work systems. In this episode, we break down what AI is actually good at and where it falls short.

A Case Study: Before EverMore, a director was drowning in pressure, avoiding hard conversations, and carrying his team’s growth alone. Then he met Stone. This is the story of how reflection, a North Star, and an AI coach who doesn’t placate helped him shed his armor and transform his leadership style.

When individual performance falters, the answer isn’t clear-cut. It’s buried under company quirks and constraints, team dynamics, and personal realities. This manager guide walks through scenarios like role elimination, skills mismatch, overleveling, and values misalignment to unearth the considerations, traps, and answer the question—Should I coach or not? Because deciding to let someone go deserves care lest you erode a culture under the tyranny of competition and fear.

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.

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.

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

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

Over the next few years, I expect technology to outpace ethics, human creation to be novel, and a retreat from the grind into fractional, part-time, or even off-the-grid existences. A new world emerges — one that’s feminine, cooperative, connected, and shows reverence for the interdependence of humanity, including at the workplace.