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Fail Fast, Learn Faster - Rethinking Talent Up-Skilling
Academia

Fail Fast, Learn Faster - Rethinking Talent Up-Skilling

I built a decentralized micro-fund to upskill 400+ postdocs. It funded great science, but data revealed broken incentives and AI vulnerabilities. Here is my post-mortem on failing fast in leadership, and redesigning a high-signal skills accelerator.
12 Mar 2026 3 min read
Scaling the 11th Century Start-up, or, Why Universities Break People
MBA

Scaling the 11th Century Start-up, or, Why Universities Break People

53% of academics show signs of depression. This is a role design failure, not a resilience issue: we are managing 21st-century experts with medieval guild structures. To fix the crisis, we must abandon the 'Lone Wolf' myth and re-engineer the role. Don't blame the players; change the game.
30 Jan 2026 6 min read
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