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title: Career side doors and negotiation
tags:
  - wiki
  - concepts
sources:
  - "[[How to enter side doors]]"
  - "[[Salary Negotiation Make More Money Be More Valued]]"
  - "[[Managing remote teams a crash course]]"
  - "[[juggernaut on X CTO shared this with me on day 1something everyone should read if they are in an early-stage startup at least once httpst.co4M7PR3P46O]]"
date: "2026-07-17T06:24:25.758Z"
created: "2026-07-17T06:24:25.758Z"
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# 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.