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Part One · The Human Cost of Modern Work
The Price of Performance
The title, the salary, the track record. You bought in. All the way. And then the language changed. Human capital. Not people. Not your team. Human capital.
Writing on the realities of contemporary work, career, and the systems we operate within.
The title, the salary, the track record. You bought in. All the way. And then the language changed. Human capital. Not people. Not your team. Human capital.
How it ends depends largely on where you sit in the structure. For some, access is revoked immediately. For others, there is gardening leave, a privileged space of panic and stress, or relaxation and pivots.
Not everyone who builds a portfolio career chose it first. For some it followed a redundancy. For others it is a deliberate decision, whether that is early in a career or at a mid-career pivot.
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