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Do Founders Need a Coach? What a Founder Coach Actually Does
Not every founder needs a coach. But almost every founder needs someone who will disagree with them. An honest look at what founder coaching is for.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 135 min read


I Feel Stuck in My Career: What's Really Going On and What to Do Next
You feel stuck in your career, but nothing is technically wrong. Here is what is often really going on, and how to move without blowing everything up.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 135 min read


Expat Burnout and Loneliness: The Quiet Cost of a Successful Life Abroad
From the outside your life abroad looks like a success story. From the inside it can feel strangely quiet. On expat burnout, loneliness and what helps.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 136 min read


Reverse Culture Shock: Why Going Home Can Feel Harder Than Leaving
You expected relief. You got disorientation. Why coming home after years abroad can hurt more than leaving did, and what re-entry research says about preparing for it.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 136 min read


Expat Identity Crisis: Who Are You When You Belong to Two Places?
Too foreign at home, too local abroad? What bicultural identity research, third culture kids and the idea of ambiguous loss reveal about belonging to two places.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 136 min read


Should I Move Back Home? How to Decide When You're Torn Between Two Countries
Torn between the country you live in and the one you came from? What regret research, sunk cost psychology and a famous coin flip study can teach you about the decision.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 136 min read


Human Intelligence in the Age of AI: The Skills Machines Can't Replace
The machine gives answers. The human chooses the question. A look at the skills AI can't replace, and how to train them before you need them.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 126 min read


The Unopposed Mind: Why Leaders Need People Who Disagree with Them
The higher you climb, the quieter the disagreement gets. Here is why leaders need dissent, and how to keep a mind from becoming unopposed.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 127 min read


Decision Fatigue at Work: Why Your Best Decisions Happen Before Noon
The story says your willpower is a battery that drains by noon. The science is messier, and more useful. Here is what decision fatigue at work really looks like.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 127 min read


Strategy Consultant vs. Performance Coach: Which Do You Actually Need?
A consultant brings answers. A coach sharpens the person who has to live with them. Here is how to tell which one your problem is asking for, and why sometimes the honest answer is both.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 127 min read


Should I Quit My Job? Questions to Ask Before You Resign
Should I quit my job? The question feels like a verdict. It is really a design problem, and better questions lead to better exits, or better reasons to stay.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 126 min read


Overthinking Decisions? Why Smart People Get Stuck and How to Move
Overthinking is not a thinking problem. It is a stopping problem. Why bright minds get stuck in analysis paralysis, and a few small experiments to help you move.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 126 min read


Expat Career Change: How to Rebuild Your Career in a New Country
Moving abroad quietly deletes half of your professional reputation. Here is how to rebuild a career in a new country by testing who you are becoming, not defending who you were.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 127 min read


How to Make a Big Career Decision (When Every Option Looks Reasonable)
When every option looks reasonable, more analysis rarely helps. Here is what philosophy and behavioral science say about hard career decisions, and how to actually make one.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 127 min read


Leaving Corporate: 10 Things My First Year on My Own Taught Me
Ten things I learned in the year I left corporate life and started building my own way. A personal balance sheet for anyone thinking about resigning.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 128 min read


Polymath or Just Scattered? The Difference That Matters
Are you scattered, or does your mind just work in connections? On the difference between restlessness and polymath thinking, and why it matters more than ever in the age of AI.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 1215 min read


Thinking About Moving Abroad? Questions to Ask Before You Decide
Want to live and work abroad? Before you pack, here are the questions to ask yourself and a step-by-step look at what the move really takes.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 1211 min read


We're Not as Rational as We Think: Cognitive Biases That Run Our Decisions
We think we see the world as it is. We don't. A guide to the 21 most common cognitive biases and psychological traps quietly steering our decisions.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 125 min read


Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Why do smart people make mistakes they can see coming? An essay on pattern-seeking brains, the errors they produce, and why intelligence does not guarantee good decisions.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 126 min read


Why Smart People Stay in the Wrong Life
The problem is not intelligence. It is the old decisions that intelligence keeps defending.
Gizem Şahan
Oct 124 min read
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