Newsletter — Bad Fit

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Get fueled by me and halftank studio

For people who refuse to accept broken systems — and who'd rather see the pattern early than learn it the hard way.

Every two weeks. Stories from the book and the patterns underneath them. No corporate platitudes, no resilience bullshit — just what I learned getting laid off for telling the truth, over and over.

What arrives

What you'll get

Stories from the book before it's published, including the ones I'm still working out
The early signs of dysfunction — the CEOzilla trap, the “team of one” seduction, startup cult dynamics
How the same patterns repeat across startups, contractors, and Fortune 100s, so you can spot yours
Honest talk about the parts nobody puts in the career advice: severance, NDAs, money, and leverage
First access to community programs and consulting as they launch
Confirmation that being called difficult often means you're the most accurate person in the room

Recent

What's been covered

The Scapegoat Economy

How companies turn individuals into tidy explanations for structural failure.

Translation Tax

The invisible labor of translating between creative and business thinking, and why it gets weaponized.

The Isolation Economy

How NDAs keep workers from discovering they all had the same experience.

Privilege and Power

Why financial independence let me keep my integrity, and what that reveals about who gets to speak.

Who this is for

You've been told you're not a culture fit after naming something nobody wanted named.

You've left a meeting wondering whether you're the crazy one or whether everyone else is pretending.

You've been laid off for speaking plainly, then watched the same problems grind down the people who stayed quiet.

You already know: being a bad fit is often the sanest available response.