Career side doors and negotiation

Legibility, proof-of-work, and bargaining — adjacent to job-hunt ToDos but compiled here as lasting doctrine.

Takeaways

• Side doors — make work visible; warm intros beat cold apply; signal in noise.
• Negotiation — loaded cost asymmetry; recruiters optimize for close; know walk-away.
• Remote teams — fully distributed design ≠ “office optional”; communication architecture is the product.
• Early-stage urgency/calm tension (thin X stub) — treat as reminder to recover primary source if needed.

Links out

Actions live in ToDos/career/; evaluation cards in SoM. This page is doctrine, not a checklist.