I was about halfway through grading a stack of ninth-grade essays when I genuinely considered quitting teaching. Not dramatically quitting — just that quiet, tired thought of *maybe I should do something else.* Forty-seven essays. Same prompt. Half of them circling the same misunderstanding I’d already addressed in class twice. I wasn’t burned out on […]
I almost hired the wrong person because I trusted a spreadsheet. That sounds dramatic, but it’s true. I was running point on hiring for a small ops role at a company with maybe forty people total, no dedicated recruiter, and a stack of 200-something resumes that had come in over two weeks. My system was […]
I was halfway through a product demo for a client in São Paulo when I realized the Portuguese voiceover I’d approved sounded like someone reading off a cereal box. Flat. Clipped. The lip sync was slightly off, which made the avatar look vaguely threatening. The client didn’t say anything directly, but I could tell from […]