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Open question: has the framework changed how you make career decisions, beyond hiring?
Posting this because the Infrastructure Series is usually framed around hiring and assessment, but the place it's done the most for me personally is in the *opposite* direction — deciding which jobs t…
Reading 'The Amplifier' alongside the Infrastructure Series — early impressions
Just finished the first half of The Amplifier (the riskefficacy.org companion volume) and wanted to flag for anyone else picking it up: it's much more operational than the Infrastructure Series. The I…
Does the book conflate recovery and resilience? Genuinely asking.
PhD candidate in judgment & decision-making, working through Chapter 5 for the third time. The book treats recovery and resilience as components of the same pillar, but the literature I've come up thr…
Anyone applying the four-pillar framing outside work — coaching, parenting, anything?
I've started noticing the framework leaking into how I think about non-work decisions. Coached my kid through a chess tournament last weekend and caught myself running Calibration and Resilience reads…
Reporter question: what's the most underreported angle in this whole space?
Working on a long piece for the magazine on the changing landscape of how organizations measure people. I've covered the obvious angles (AI in hiring, college-degree-as-credential debate, skills-based…
Neurodivergent thinkers in this community — what's your experience with the Risk Efficacy framework so far?
The book argues that current talent infrastructure systematically miscodes neurodivergent signatures. I'd love to hear, from people in the community who'd describe themselves as neurodivergent: does t…
Retired-perspective: what survives of the federal merit system after 30 years
Spent 30 years in federal hiring, retired last year. A few things I'd want a younger version of myself to know. (1) The merit system never really existed as a coherent system; it was a patchwork of co…
Pressure performance: what do you wish someone had told you in your first crisis?
Twenty years in pressure-performance roles and the thing I've learned that's hardest to teach: the moment you notice you're operating below your usual standard, you have maybe ninety seconds to either…
Public health reminder: most measurement systems weren't designed for the populations they're now applied to
Spending the morning rereading the chapter on neurodivergent signatures and it strikes me how universally true this is across measurement systems. BMI was developed on Belgian men in the 1830s. Standa…
Sharing my interview pivot story for other neurodivergent folks here
Posting this in case it's useful to anyone in a similar boat. After reading the Risk Efficacy chapters last fall I started explicitly framing my interview answers around the four pillars rather than a…
How do you frame your Risk Efficacy score to non-technical friends?
I keep landing on "it's a measure of how good my decision process is, not how often I'm right." Curious what frames have worked for others.
Anyone applying these frameworks to creative or artistic decision-making?
Spent ten years as a working composer before I moved into product. The decision-quality literature feels written for engineers and analysts, but a lot of what makes a good composer or designer or film…
Reading recommendations: books on credentialing alternatives?
Building a reading list for a client team transitioning to skills-based hiring. Beyond the Infrastructure Series, what should be on it?
What's a system you stopped trusting once you understood how it worked?
Curious what's on people's lists. For me it was credit scoring — once I understood that the model was optimized for predicting profitability for the lender, not creditworthiness in any general sense,…