Articles
- The Best Helper on Your Team Is the One Closest to Burning Out
How to structure teams, rethink the growth role, and help people without wearing yourself down. Ray reads the leadership stuff so you don't have to.
- Your Best Hires Are Rebuilding Themselves. Are You Watching?
Designers are surviving 550 rejections, launching agencies at 45, and questioning briefs. Here is what that tells design leaders about coaching and retention.
- The rung you're standing on, and the one you're avoiding
PMs are being asked to finish tasks with AI, not just draft with it. Here's what career resilience actually looks like when the job keeps moving under you.
- Your best people aren't quitting. They're looking sideways.
Design burnout and AI skepticism are rewriting the job description. Here's what the 2026 survey data means for how you grow and keep your team.
- The layoff memos blame AI. The hiring data says otherwise.
New hiring numbers show engineering holding up while customer-data and game studios cut staff. A clearer read on which roles AI augments versus replaces.
- Draw the Lines Before the Reorg Draws Them for You
PM and PMM boundaries, pivot costs, and product sunsetting are blurring fast. Here's how to set clear ownership before a reorg forces your hand.
- Every App Wants to Be Every App Now
TikTok is going super-app, YouTube Shorts is cloning TikTok, and Meta is chasing glasses and betting. Here's what that copying means for your roadmap.
- What three illustrators figured out that your team is still fighting
Three illustrators built durable creative careers after burnout. Here's what their moves teach you about managing creative people and protecting their voice.
