The Lazy Consultant

I kept noticing something in conversations with people who seemed totally fine at work. They weren't quitting. They weren't even looking. But when I pushed, the real answer was: they were scared to leave, not happy to stay. That distinction matters more than most career content acknowledges. The problem is that most of the coverage around this trend lands in one of two useless places — eit...

Every time there's a big tech layoff, someone on LinkedIn posts that AI is coming for all of us. Every time the jobs numbers hold, someone else says it's all overblown. I wanted to know what was actually true — not the takes, the evidence. What bothers me about the existing coverage is how much of it is vibes dressed up as analysis. The real story is messier and more specific than either c...

I kept sitting in conversations where people threw around words like "tokens," "agents," and "models" and I realized I was nodding without actually knowing what I was agreeing to. That feeling of almost-understanding is surprisingly hard to shake. The problem is most AI explainers either dumb it down to the point of uselessness or assume you already know half the voca...

I kept asking myself why so much content feels hollow right now — even the well-produced stuff. Everyone's posting more, using better tools, moving faster. And somehow it all feels like less. The problem is that most AI content advice skips the foundation entirely. It jumps straight to prompts and workflows without ever asking whether the creator has anything real to say. That's a gap wort...

I kept catching myself doing everything except the thing I needed to do. Not scrolling, not sleeping — actually working, just on the wrong things. And I realized I didn't understand what was actually happening. The frustrating part is that most content on procrastination is just repackaged productivity advice. Start earlier. Use a planner. Be more disciplined. None of it touches the actual mec...

I kept looking at my own overhead and wondering why I was still paying for things AI could clearly handle. Not in a theoretical way — in a very specific, line-item way. The frustration is that most AI content for small business owners is either too abstract or too aspirational. It's all "transform your business" and never "here's what actually runs, what it costs, and what b...

Every time I opened a feed this month, someone was either panicking about AI replacing everything or dismissing it entirely as overblown. I couldn't find anyone actually explaining what's happening at the level where decisions are being made. The frustrating part is that the information exists. The leaders building these systems are talking openly. But the signal keeps getting buried under...

Someone in my feed quit their job last month because they read that AI makes everything possible now. I wanted to actually look into whether that's true — not to kill the idea, but because the gap between what's being claimed and what's being experienced felt too wide to ignore. The noise is bad in a specific way: it cherry-picks the outlier and presents it as the model. One agent flip...

I kept seeing the same headline everywhere — one person, no employees, six figures a month, all thanks to AI. It sounds like a cheat code. I wanted to know if it actually is. So I started pulling apart the claims. The playbooks. The numbers. The parts nobody puts in the thumbnail. I went through Dan Martell on how he launched a company doing $83K/month with one founder and two contractors, Greg Is...

Google I/O happened this week and within hours my feed was flooded. Every tech YouTuber had a recap. Every newsletter had a hot take. Google themselves published a list of 100 announcements — one hundred. And that is the problem. When a company announces that many things in one keynote, it becomes genuinely hard to figure out what actually matters, what is available right now, and what is just a p...

I wanted to understand what actually makes social media content work — not the surface-level tips, the real mechanics. So I started going through everything. Storytelling science, platform algorithms, psychology of persuasion, AI workflows, creator strategies. The problem? There's too much out there. Everybody's an expert now. Hours of content, overlapping advice, contradictions, filler di...