Stop / Go

Stop So my previously announced plan to write a book about ‘hopeful hiring’ has been scrapped. I’ve been poking at it over the last few weeks while I’ve been off work but unfortunately I just don’t think it has legs (and neither does the publisher I was talking to!). I suspect I have just about enough useful thoughts to pull together a ‘playbook’ of some kind but – there is always a but – it does all feel a little bit ‘Old Man Yells at Cloud’ already so I can’t even imagine what it would like like by the time it was fit for public consumption. Things around hiring are changing so fast – driven by AI for sure but also shifting demographics, working patterns, expectations and the mess that is ‘hybrid’ – and making sense of all of that is probably a worthwhile endeavor but also something I am just not equipped to do. Really I was never as attached to the idea of it as a book as I was with the whole ‘working in the open’ stuff so if I was able to let that dream go I’m not going to mourn…