Career Playbooks & Guides

Most burnout advice is vague. This 20-minute LA4P diagnostic shows you exactly which of six dimensions is failing—and gives you specific interventions for each pattern.

A decision framework that rates job offers across 6 dimensions and projects how small differences compound over decades—not just quarters. Includes interactive comparison tools, research-backed insights, and real examples.

Most people optimize for their highest career score. The math shows sustained 4s compound to 2x more career capital than dramatic 5s that decay. Learn to spot trajectory patterns before you hit the decay phase.

Most careers are optimized for 1 of 6 dimensions. Learn the LA4P system to build a meaningful career across Learning, Alignment, People, Prestige, Pace, and Profit.

How Phil Knight went from encyclopedia salesman (Alignment: 1/5) to Nike founder (all 5s). A complete LA4P analysis of every experience across 40 years reveals the pattern behind a $35 billion empire.

Learn the 7 behavioral patterns that separate exceptional managers (4-5/5) from merely acceptable ones (3/5). Includes interview questions, scoring rubric, and self-assessment for aspiring managers.

Stop treating career reflection like crisis response. Learn the 10-minute Friday ritual that helps professionals spot burnout patterns 8-12 months early using the LA4P framework.

Diagnose whether your burnout requires renegotiation or strategic exit. Get scripts for both tracks plus 30/60/90-day success criteria.

A practical, data-first way to tell if you're burned out or just in a rough patch—using your past roles and 1–5 ratings, not vibes.

If you rate Pace 1-2 across 3+ roles, you have an 83% chance of burnout within 18 months. Here's the pattern most people miss.

Most career dashboards track everything and see nothing. Learn how to build a simple 3-metric system that catches misalignment 18 months earlier than complex tracking.

Most tools hide their logic. We show ours. Learn the psychological principles and design decisions behind our LA4P calculator—and how Francisco used it to choose between Google and a startup.

Stop guessing if you should stay or quit. Use the 3-month pattern rule to distinguish adjustment pain from real red flags in your career.

Most people optimize careers for salary. But your real ROI comes from six dimensions most spreadsheets ignore. Here's how to measure what actually compounds over 40 years.

Learn how small rating shifts compound over a decade. Use the 10-Year You lens to evaluate job offers, internal moves, and quitting decisions.

Earning $215K at McKinsey but miserable? You're trapped in salary monoculture—optimizing for the one dimension that's easiest to measure. Here's how to escape the 4-year recovery cycle.

Why 5-year chapters beat annual goals for career planning. Learn to structure your 40-year arc into 8 meaningful chapters instead of 40 frantic years.

Spreadsheets hide what matters most in career decisions. Learn how hexagon visualizations reveal the trade-offs your spreadsheet can't capture—and why your brain needs shapes to make better choices.

Track your LA4P scores to identify exit patterns before desperation hits. Learn which dimension drops predict job changes and when to fix vs. leave.

This post explains why cognitive biases systematically prevent us from recognizing workplace red flags, and provides the LA4P tracking framework with bias-resistant prompts to detect patterns 3-6 months earlier.

Francisco had two good offers and a spreadsheet that told him nothing. Then he scored both across 6 dimensions. Here's what the pattern revealed—and which offer he chose.

Why we spend more time planning a single event than we do planning four decades of our professional lives—and what we can do about it.