Scott Stirrett

If you feel career anxiety right now, you are reacting to uncertainty with high stakes and low perceived control. That is normal. The goal is not to wake up tomorrow with total clarity. The goal is a repeatable process for your next career move, even when you have no clear career path. That is the core idea in The Uncertainty Advantage . Careers are messy, and the people who do well are not the ones with the cleanest narrative. They are the ones with the best decision process when things are...

This picture is from the 2016 Venture for Canada Fellow Training Camp. If you have ever posted a role and felt buried, or applied and felt invisible, it is not you. It is the ATS and resume screening model collapsing under AI driven volume. We do not have a talent shortage. We have a hiring system that hides talent and then blames workers for the consequences. Employers say they cannot find qualified candidates. Job seekers say they cannot get a fair look. Both are true. The issue is not a...

Reading The Lord of The Rings as a child Each year, I keep a simple reading note. What I read tends to reflect how I am moving through the world that year, what I am wrestling with, and what I am trying to pay closer attention to. I am on track to read about 35 books in 2025. Compared to past years, the mix skewed much more toward fiction. That is a shift for me. I usually default to non fiction. That is a mistake. Fiction slows me down in a way non fiction rarely does. A good novel pulls...