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Notes from a career that didn't go in a straight line.

Pharma sales, then more than a decade in recruiting and HR, then building AI products. None of it went in a straight line. These are the lessons from the turns, with the data that says a path like this is more normal than it feels.

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  1. No. 3Follow the work, not the titleWhy I left full-time roles for consulting, and how each contract pulled me closer to building. · 2 min read
  2. No. 2The question I used to dreadWhat were you doing between May and December 2021? For years I had no good answer. Here's the one I'd give now. · 2 min read
  3. No. 1Same conversation, other side of the tableI went from selling to physicians to recruiting for NBCUniversal and HBO. It took me years to see it was one job. · 2 min read