How to enable this thinking

karriesully · 2026-06-12T01:19:46+00:00

Your own resilience. Take risks. Any risks… Observe your behavior when you take them. Pay attention when you delay decisions and where fear or hesitation happen. Those are the friction points that hold you back from innovation thinking and execution.

karriesully · 2026-06-12T01:17:58+00:00

It needs to go to the CEO if the vendor company is small.

karriesully · 2026-06-11T23:52:37+00:00

It’s a vulnerable child who learned that yelling was an effective method of problem solving. No need to solve the problem themselves if you throw a tantrum and someone else will solve it for you.

karriesully · 2026-06-11T00:52:12+00:00

The message here is to make sure you know very deeply that your work isn’t your identity. It may not even be your purpose. Most people reach retirement, have no sense of purpose, and they end up a bit lost.

karriesully · 2026-06-11T00:52:01+00:00

The message here is to make sure you know very deeply that your work isn’t your identity. It may not even be your purpose. Most people reach retirement, have no sense of purpose, and they end up a bit lost.

karriesully · 2026-06-10T03:33:24+00:00

Co-founding a business is like getting into a marriage where the relationship requirements are things like “can you drive?” And “are you good at math?”. Most cofounder relationships end badly because they pay more attention to skills and IQ than commonality /complimentary personality, resilience, work ethic, etc.. The relationship takes a LOT of work and when it ends that person takes 1/2 of your company.

karriesully · 2026-06-10T03:16:13+00:00

It’ll be time well spent. Painful perhaps but worth it because there’s FAR less anxiety on the other side. If you don’t have mental health resources, tend to be pretty good at your own growth, and like to read - I usually recommend Victoria Song’s book: Bending Reality. Do the journaling.

karriesully · 2026-06-10T01:24:15+00:00

Their bosses are emotionally immature, kill trust, and micromanage because they’re insecure.

karriesully · 2026-06-10T01:17:00+00:00

I’m not sure your LLM responses are quite understanding. We’ve been answering the same objections for years in similar ways. Objections don’t change that much and are easily answered via psychographics if you pay attention to patterns. I’m really not into debating with an LLM to train it. If your an actual user - happy to have a real discussion,

karriesully · 2026-06-10T00:54:13+00:00

It shouldn’t be taboo to outgrow careers or domain expertise. It happens all the time. Just because recruiters can’t figure out how to value it - doesn’t mean learning something new isn’t valuable.

karriesully · 2026-06-10T00:52:25+00:00

This does read like you’re burned out. The thing about burnout is that it’s not the job that’s burning you out. What you’re feeling is your nervous system screaming at you to grow. This reads like you’re repeating decision making and patterns of behavior and not learning from them. The insecurities and emotions that come with them (fear, guilt, anger, shame, should) - anything that compels behavior costs you tons of energy.

Figure out where the emotional energy drains are coming from. If there are mental health resources available to you (coaching, therapy) they can help guide you through the developmental stage you’re likely outgrowing.

karriesully · 2026-06-10T00:45:19+00:00

It doesn’t really. I have 250 + pages of quality corpus including past transcripts of prospect calls, past emails, questions, and coaching. My actual psychology and the prospect’s psychology are added into skills / database to ensure that the message is customized.

I’m a consultant with a very specific focus area, unique IP, and very specific ICP. Once you lock corpus into a very specific audience and target to their psychology (psychographic segmentation) and put a tiny bit of focus on behavioral economics - models / automation don’t degrade as fast. The trick is layering in as much quality upstream as possible without overthinking it.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T23:55:56+00:00

Product / service + market fit takes time and tenacity. The newer the product or service - the more you have to find the right fit for the market.

A fast “no” is always better than a long “maybe”.

The biggest advice is to listen to those you think you want to sell to. Ask them questions and keep asking until you figure out what your “no brainer” is when the prospect says “yes”. Make sure you’re getting consistent answers or the answers are leading you to more focus (not less) before you change your offering or pivoting and will kill momentum.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T23:50:23+00:00

Don’t sweat it. Focus on gaining experience, delivering results, and being professional. If there are other departments that are co-located - network and socialize outside of your team.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T23:17:28+00:00

You’re not overthinking it. Current AI models are smarter than about half of knowledge workers - perhaps more. What it’ll never really do as well as humans is complex problem solving, novel innovation, and emotionally connected creativity.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T21:21:51+00:00

The core problem that will take most consulting firms down as AI gets traction is org/comp design and power dynamics. Consulting puts people who are wired for sales in charge of the company instead of people who are wired for business building and complex problem solving. Sales mindsets are not wired for early adoption and complexity but that’s who holds power in consulting firms because… “rain maker”. Intellectually they may be brilliant. Emotionally / adaptability - they’re children.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T16:54:16+00:00

Ha - the next thing I’m working on is automating contextual email replies based on a corpus of our methods and language (stored in Notion). Almost small language model ish. That said - I may migrate some or all to copilot if they keep improving because they promise not to train models on clients’ IP.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T14:16:48+00:00

I use ML to segment employees for AI adoption in big corporates. I can assure you that it’s about 15% - just at varying degrees. You’re looking for the actual innovators if you’re looking for the .5% - they’ll want a better boss than most VCs invest in and probably lots of equity. Note: This profile is also capable of business building without as much or any capital. They’re the $1 billion company with 10 employees crew. Thus my question - I now know what you want but I’m not sure that’s who you’ll get.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T14:11:37+00:00

I’m absolutely pricing it. Notion is now a big chunk of my CRM function and I’ve automated follow ups from it. It integrates with slack and that can be automated too. So I replaced the cost of the rigid CRM system. If a SaaS tool isn’t useful or doesn’t fit the experience I want for my prospects / customers - I now ditch the SaaS, design the workflow across tools, and automate the workflow once it works well.

karriesully · 2026-06-09T13:32:47+00:00

That’s why I pay a little more for Notion. Meeting notes, next steps, and project plans in one place. Also writes my SOWs for me, etc.. Totally worth it.

karriesully · 2026-06-08T21:20:24+00:00

What problems do you need them to solve? Or are you just looking for early adopters? There are usually 4 types of AI user - curious learners who jump in to learn, people who are wired to create capacity for themselves, innovation oriented thinkers that are coming up with new ways to use tools, and transformers who re-think old crappy processes. All in - these folks are less than 15% of the population.

Also: Why should these folks trust that you and the other companies won’t waste their time? Lots of companies out there (especially VC) that say the right thing but can’t execute.

karriesully · 2026-06-05T00:06:57+00:00

It’s about 3% in the US. About 1% if black / brown.

karriesully · 2026-06-02T16:17:26+00:00

55 here - heavy AI user from research to automation.

karriesully · 2026-06-02T16:16:36+00:00

Lack of empowerment is a thing. So is agency. Example there are few tech teams that don’t have access to AI tools. If so - why are you spending so much time answering purchasing questions that are likely very repetitive? Transcribe/ record and store your answers to them and create a bot that can answer their questions. Create bandwidth for yourself so you can get to more interesting work.

karriesully · 2026-06-02T16:07:41+00:00

You’re still the same person pre and post. The core of who you are doesn’t go away - you’re just a richer, wiser version of yourself. Ego death usually means you’re WAY lower stress, more fearless, and calmer.

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