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Field Notes From The Rebellion

I write for the high-functioning but disillusioned. You built a career that works on paper. Now something underneath is asking different questions. Essays on capacity, identity, and the slow work of reclaiming what's actually yours.

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  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    You Are Inside a Psychological Operation Right Now. With Sebastian Hidalgo (opens the original)

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    is usually the one asking questions. Being on the other side of the mic threw him for about ten seconds.I went through his SWAT sales training last year, and it changed how I have every conversation, including the ones with no offer at the end. Most of it is nervous system work. Ask the question. Then shut up.He got certified in hostage negotiation at 18. A decade later he sat in a psychological operations class run by a former special-ops guy and realized he’d been telling himself he was bad at

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    The Story Under the System. With Josh Allan Dykstra (opens the original)

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    I talked to Joseph the day before this and he called himself a raging optimist. Josh calls himself a chosen one. I’m somewhere back in the tragic-optimist camp with Viktor Frankl. Between the three of us we might add up to one hopeful person. grew up a classically trained pianist, wanted to be a rock star, and has spent the last twenty years in what he calls the make-work-not-suck industry. Organizations spend $400 billion a year on that problem. Nobody has fixed it. His argument is that they ca

  3. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Napster for Employment. With Joseph Logan (opens the original)

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    My layoff email came at 3 a.m. Oracle’s came at 6. Joseph and I were joking about which is worse before we hit record, and then we stopped joking. is a friend, a fellow Coloradan, and the person I read when I want the numbers behind the feeling. He publishes a monthly AI job displacement report on Substack. A year ago his model said the acceleration would start in early 2026 while everyone else was saying three to four years. He rebuilt the model over and over trying to make it say something els

  4. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Do You Know Where You Are? With Beck Sydow (opens the original)

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    Beck showed up wearing an ampersand on their chest. Their thesis: People-hearted and business-minded. We’ve been friends for a while. This is the first time we’ve hit record.Beck spends most of their days teaching leaders to regulate their own nervous systems, and they say the words “nervous system” in a room and watch people get nervous. So we went there. The wiring we have was built for a different world. Most people are operating dysregulated most of the time, and most workplace dysfunction i

  5. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    We recorded a Rebellion Collective podcast. Then we sat on it for five months. (opens the original)

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    The first episode was recorded on a Monday in March. The guest’s mic cut out thirty seconds in. We laughed, started over, and had one of the better conversations I’ve had this year.Then I did what I always do. I got busy. Retreats, keynotes, the community, a spring that didn’t feel like spring. The recordings sat in a folder while an editor turned them into something you’d actually want to watch.They’re ready. Five of them, with more behind.Here’s who you’ll meet, one a day starting today. , on

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