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Nobody cares about your old title

Oct 27, 2026

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5 min read

Nobody cares about your old title

Good. It was never the valuable part anyway.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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Fractional is consulting with better PR

Oct 20, 2026

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5 min read

Fractional is consulting with better PR

That's not an insult. It might be the smartest part.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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Your first career was the R&D

Oct 13, 2026

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4 min read

Your first career was the R&D

Thirty-one late-career founders, one pattern: almost none of them started over.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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Payroll costs less than $250 a month

Oct 6, 2026

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5 min read

Payroll costs less than $250 a month

Agencies say AI adds 10% to margins. My old P&L says that's the wrong number.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Creator Economy

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Year 3: fewer subscribers, better newsletter

Sep 29, 2026

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6 min read

Year 3: fewer subscribers, better newsletter

What changed, what I cut, and what's in the machine room. Plus: help me build year 4.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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Write your own permission slip

Sep 22, 2026

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5 min read

Write your own permission slip

Forty years of experiments, and a four-box test for an easy win

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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812 lawyers and counting

Sep 15, 2026

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7 min read

812 lawyers and counting

The work got free. The responsibility didn’t.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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Nobody hires a calculator

Sep 8, 2026

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5 min read

Nobody hires a calculator

A billionaire admitted a machine wrote his op-ed. The reaction tells you where the value moved.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Essential Reading

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AI update - Q3 2026

Sep 1, 2026

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7 min read

AI update - Q3 2026

Chatbots answer. Agents act. That’s the whole story.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Innovation

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We built AI governance before AI needed governing

Aug 25, 2026

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6 min read

We built AI governance before AI needed governing

An old friend called about blockchain. I told him I'd moved on. Then I spent the morning realizing I hadn't.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris

Encore Career

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The autopilot did its job. That's what killed them.

Aug 18, 2026

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6 min read

The autopilot did its job. That's what killed them.

What a 2009 plane crash can teach late-career professionals about handing judgment to AI.

Rob Norris
George Pillari
Rob Norris, +1

Encore Career

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Don't Fund the Bubble.

Aug 11, 2026

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5 min read

Don't Fund the Bubble.

Most of what's happening is garbage. The infrastructure underneath it isn't.

Rob Norris
Rob Norris
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