There is a moment in a professional life that is easy to miss. Nothing dramatic happens. You don’t fail. You don’t lose competence. You don’t wake up to a crisis. You continue to grow. You think more clearly than you did five years ago. You see patterns faster. Your decisions are more deliberate. The work…

(Microsoft, before it learned to move again) There is a different kind of professional stall. Not the one where people don’t quite understand what you do. But the one where they understand it “too well”. So well, in fact, that they stop imagining you anywhere else. This kind of clarity feels reassuring at first. It…