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Sometimes the Problem Is You
Personal responsibility begins when we stop treating our own behavior as the exception.
15 hrs ago
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Brent Raeth
You Probably Do Not Need More Advice. You Need to Do Something.
Books, podcasts, and AI can help us improve. They can also give us increasingly respectable ways to avoid the work of changing.
Oct 15
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Brent Raeth
There Is a Difference Between Being Kind and Being Nice
Being nice is often about making people feel comfortable. Being kind is about doing what is right for them, even when it makes everyone uncomfortable.
Oct 14
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Brent Raeth
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Maybe We Don't Have a Worker Shortage. Maybe We Have an Expectations Mismatch.
Employers think workers have become unreasonable. Workers think employers have become unreasonable. Maybe both are reacting to an employment…
Oct 12
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Brent Raeth
Suffering Is Selfishness
Pain is part of being human. Suffering becomes something different when our pain turns inward so completely that we stop seeing the people…
Oct 9
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Brent Raeth
A Good Employee Should Eventually Make Their Boss Less Necessary
The best leaders do not build dependency. They build people who can think, decide, and lead without waiting for permission.
Oct 8
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Brent Raeth
AI Is Making Execution Easier. Thinking Is Becoming More Valuable.
Why the humanities deserve another look as artificial intelligence changes how we work.
Oct 7
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Brent Raeth
My New Book Is Here: Think Outside the Box
Why Our Greatest Problems Persist and How Curiosity and Courage Can Fix Them.
Oct 6
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Brent Raeth
We Keep Lowering Standards and Calling It Inclusion
Removing barriers gives people a fair chance to meet the standard. Lowering the standard simply changes what success means.
Oct 5
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Brent Raeth
Your Feelings Are Real. That Doesn't Mean They're Right.
We have become very good at validating how people feel. We may have become less willing to question what those feelings are telling them.
Oct 2
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Brent Raeth
AI Won’t Take Your Job. Someone Who Knows How to Use It Might.
The real divide may not be human versus artificial intelligence. It may be between people who adapt and people who refuse to.
Oct 1
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Brent Raeth
September 2026
Why Are We So Afraid to Tell Someone They Aren’t Good at Something?
Honest feedback has become uncomfortable enough that organizations sometimes allow people to struggle indefinitely rather than tell them the truth.
Sep 29
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Brent Raeth
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