Chris S - The Next Rung

June 2026

The Displacement Will Not Be Televised
Five posts in 24 hours, all the same shape, and nobody in the comments saying the thing out loud.
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The window is closing. Here is what I think we do.
The phased timeline. The five things worth doing now. The honest register. What comes next.
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Chapter preview: The Breaking
What happens when enough companies transform that the rest can’t refuse.
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It’s open for pre-order
You work with AI... What's it going to do to your career or industry?
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Mortgages built on salary assumptions that no longer hold
What the banking system isn’t saying about correlated professional-class defaults
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What Orca learnt in its first 100 demos
Three buyer reactions. Three objection archetypes. One question that tells you if it’s going to convert.
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AI Intelligence Briefs - 10 of 10
Meeting Prep as a Leading Indicator
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3:03
The 2.5-year skills half-life and why your CPD is a ritual, not a hedge
Technical skills are decaying faster than you can acquire them. Continuing Professional Development is comforting and mostly useless against that rate…
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The bold layer: how I wrote the whole argument in 5,000 words
Every chapter has a skim-read version because the people whose jobs matter most don’t have afternoons to spare.
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AI Intelligence Briefs - 9 of 10
The Voice Problem
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2:56
Four futures, rough probabilities, no-regrets moves
Here are the four. Here is the rough math. Here are the things worth doing under all of them.
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