Ivan Palomino
@ivanpalomino.bsky.social
Behavioral Designer | Host of the Growth Hacking Culture Podcast | Founder of PeopleKult | Author | On a mission of building awesome work cultures More on https://linktr.ee/ivanpalomino
We go looking for purpose the same way we grocery shop while hungry. Reaching for whatever fills us fastest. It never nourishes us. Here is what to do instead. 👉 simplyhuman.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
What If You’ve Been Searching for Purpose in All the Wrong Places?
On self-awareness, burnout, and why clarity beats certainty every time
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Your brain stitches chaos into a story and calls it a career plan. Then it looks forward and demands the next chapter follow the same line. Every deviation gets filed under: failure. Except the detour was usually the part that was actually yours. www.linkedin.com/pulse/myth-l...
The Myth of the Linear Path
The linear career path was always a story your brain told you. Psychology, dopamine, and the detours that were never mistakes.
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A warehouse worker in our data got flagged for "excessive break time." The break was a bathroom trip. No manager reviewed it. The algorithm just decided. Nobody built that system to be cruel. Someone decided cruelty was cheaper than oversight. That's the fear nobody names. Soon. 👇
On September 10, I'm hosting The Culture Signal, a live session decoding the 7 real fears employees have about AI at work, straight from data on 20 million employee voices. 60 minutes, virtual, limited to 40 senior HR leaders. Join me! luma.com/x10qnpqq
The Culture Signal: What Your Employees Actually Fear About the AI Age · Luma
⚠️ Limited to 40 senior HR leaders · Free · Recording sent to all registrants 36,165 employees told us what they fear about AI at work. Not in a survey. Not…
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Every AI fear your employees have maps to a documented mechanism in behavioural science. Job security triggers survival mode. Skills obsolescence kills competence. Surveillance strips autonomy. No training module fixes that. www.peoplekult.com/post/psychol...
The Psychology of AI Fear at Work | What Behavioural Science Says HR Should Do
Your employees are not afraid of AI. They are afraid of what you are not telling them.Somewhere right now, a senior HR leader is approving a budget for an AI literacy training programme. The slides ar...
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13,004 employees wrote about AI surveillance at work. Keystroke tracking. Webcam photos every few minutes. Dashcams flagging drivers for yawning. That's the #1 AI fear. Not job loss. Full breakdown live Sept 10. Free session for senior HR 🧵 lu.ma/x10qnpqq
The Culture Signal: What Your Employees Actually Fear About the AI Age · Luma
⚠️ Limited to 40 senior HR leaders · Free · Recording sent to all registrants 36,165 employees told us what they fear about AI at work. Not in a survey. Not…
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I waited years to leave corporate. "Not yet. Wait until things settle down." They never did. Reorg. One more project that needed me. I wasn't being strategic. I was being protected by my own nervous system. The right moment isn't a date. It's a story your brain tells you to keep you still.
"Motivation became an explanation for outcomes when sometimes it's about access." Celeste Warren, said this in her TED Talk and I haven't stopped thinking about it. Standing still isn't neutral. It has a cost. We just normalized who pays it.
The moment you become someone's boss, people start filtering what they tell you. Not always out of fear. Sometimes out of love, they don't want to hurt you. Either way, the truth stops reaching you. Quietly. Without asking. Interview with Nik Kinley👇 youtu.be/7Yxc9gswbRM?...
The Neuroscience of Power: Why Leaders Lose Empathy
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What If the Most Underrated Brain in the Room Belongs to a Gen X? The fears, the wiring, and why the generation nobody talks about anymore is the one organisations cannot afford to ignore open.substack.com/pub/simplyhu...
What If the Most Underrated Brain in the Room Belongs to a Gen X?
The fears, the wiring, and why the generation nobody talks about anymore is the one organisations cannot afford to ignore
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Engineers aren't bad at empathy. Tell one to "be more empathetic" and there's nothing to execute. Give the same person a repeatable process, pause, ask, consider, respond, and it clicks faster than people who assumed they had it naturally. youtu.be/Xmjm4fT5lsg
Why Brilliant Engineers Get Passed Over for Promotions | Colette Molteni
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Ce que je dirais à mes 20 ans si je pouvais: La peur d'être jugé m'a coûté bien plus cher que d'être jugé. Le silence, ça se paie. Juste plus tard. 25 ans à apprendre ça. 🎙️ Interview complète sur Pas encore périmé youtu.be/Yq5mrJROQu8?...
Mon plus grand échec, ce n'est pas d'avoir craqué en 2018. C'est d'avoir tenu trop longtemps. Je me répétais "j'ai besoin de ce job." C'était pas un besoin. C'était une laisse. J'en parle dans "Pas encore périmés !" 🎧 youtu.be/Yq5mrJROQu8?...
Il transformait des organisations internationales, aujourd’hui il aide les gens à se reconstruire
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The smarter you are, the better your excuses get. Not excuses you know are excuses. Airtight explanations for why what you decided was actually correct. The people most at risk are usually the most confident they are immune. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-sm...
Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions (And Don't Know It)
The smarter you are, the better you justify bad decisions. Why intelligence alone fails smart leaders and what actually breaks the pattern.
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"Tu dois te réinventer." On te le répète depuis cinq ans. Coachs, conférences, articles du dimanche soir. Mauvais conseil. Ton expérience n'est pas un bug à corriger. C'est ton OS. www.linkedin.com/pulse/le-mid...
Le Midlife Edit: ce qu'on garde, ce qu'on lâche, ce qui redevient possible
Découvrez pourquoi se réinventer à 50 ans est le mauvais conseil, et comment le Midlife Edit change tout. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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Your engagement survey can only return answers to questions you already knew to ask. The real driver of your turnover probably never made it onto the form. New Growth Hacking Culture episode on what diagnosing actually looks like versus measuring 👇 youtu.be/Lw897eYuUTg?...
Your Employee Engagement Survey Is Lying to You | Dustin Snyder
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Tu n'as pas raté cette opportunité par manque de compétences. Tu as laissé une phrase décider à ta place. "Mon meilleur temps est derrière moi." Ce n'est pas une analyse. C'est une croyance. Et ton cerveau trouve chaque jour les preuves qu'elle est vraie. Nouvel article de Redoutable 👇
Les trois croyances à 50 ans qui te bloquent (et comment les identifier par écrit)
Découvrez les trois croyances qui bloquent les pros de 50 ans et comment les identifier par écrit pour reprendre le contrôle. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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"AI cannot have purpose." Because it reframes everything. The question was never whether AI replaces us. It's whether we choose to become more human while using it. Critical thinking. Empathy. Purpose. Invest there. Now.
6 culture traps killing your best managers: 1 Promoted for the wrong reason 2 Thrown in without preparation 3 Measured only on output 4 No safe space to struggle 5 Stuck between two worlds 6 No career path without managing people The bottleneck isn't the manager. It's the system that created them.
"We are colluding with the system we are trying to fight." Dr. Kat Page on why your wellbeing programme is treating symptoms while the design keeps producing the damage. New episode 👇 youtu.be/5apCZ3uJ9j8?...
Stop Fixing Your People. Start Fixing Work. | Dr. Kat Page
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"Self-care, as it's currently sold, asks depleted people to add things. But depletion is precisely the condition in which adding things is least possible." The biggest myth about burnout recovery: that there's a finish line. There isn't. simplyhuman.substack.com/p/what-if-ev...
What If Everything You Know About Burnout Is Making It Worse?
The myths we keep believing and what burnout recovery actually looks like, from someone who wrote a book on it
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"L'absurde, c'est la raison lucide qui constate ses limites." — Camus À 50 ans, ce moment arrive. Une réunion sans toi. Un projet confié à un plus jeune. Un silence là où il y avait de la reconnaissance. Ce n'est pas la fin de la raison. C'est la raison qui devient enfin lucide.
The most dangerous leader isn't the one who shouts. It's the one who gives a psychological safety speech on Monday and humiliates someone in a meeting on Tuesday. And smiles through both.
Nobody warns you about this part of starting fresh at 50. The market isn't the hard part. The competition isn't the hard part. It's discovering how much of what you thought was you was actually just the corporate system you'd been running inside. You don't start over at 50. You translate.
Brilliant people do not burn out despite their potential. They burn out because of it. The gap between capability and output creates shame. Shame kills executive function. The harder you push, the less you can do. It is not discipline. It is neurology. open.spotify.com/episode/6Xvf...
The Shame Loop Keeping Smart People Stuck | Burnout, Executive Function & Breaking Free ft. Frankie Berkoben
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La peur de ne plus être à la hauteur ne te paralyse pas directement. Elle te pousse à te mettre en retrait. À ne plus proposer. Et petit à petit, elle confirme ce que tu craignais. Ta valeur n'a pas de date de péremption. Mais le silence, lui, en a une. www.linkedin.com/pulse/la-peu...
La peur silencieuse à 50 ans: ce que tu ne dis à personne
Découvrez pourquoi la peur silencieuse vous paralyse au travail après 50 ans et comment la nommer pour reprendre le contrôle. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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Most HR leaders never make CHRO. Not from lack of skill. They mistake competence for readiness. The gap isn't technical. It's mindset. My chat with Tom Emery 👇 youtu.be/cWAjJuxotpI?...
Why Most HR Leaders Never Become CHROs (And What the Best Ones Do Differently) | Tom Emery
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Low AI adoption isn't a training problem. It's a trust problem wearing a training problem's clothes. 31% of employees admit to quietly undermining AI rollouts. That's not resistance. That's a culture signal. My article on people managing people peoplemanagingpeople.com/hr-operation...
Your AI Rollout Is a Cultural X-Ray. Most Leaders Aren't Looking.
Learn how an AI rollout reveals hidden culture issues, from trust and psychological safety to leadership bottlenecks, and what leaders should do next.
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The #1 predictor of attrition isn't compensation. It's not benefits. It's not even the manager. It's a signal that shows up 6 months before someone quits. I'm sharing the full data live next Thur (June 25, 11am GMT+2). luma.com/zecxv9sn
La mise à l'écart ne commence pas par un licenciement. Elle commence par une réunion. Une invitation. Un nom qui n'y est plus. Et personne ne dit rien. Je lance Redoutable, une newsletter pour les 50+ qui refusent l'invisibilité. www.linkedin.com/pulse/le-mar...
Le mardi matin où ton nom n'était pas sur l'invitation
Découvrez comment la mise à l'écart silencieuse commence au travail après 50 ans et une action concrète pour reprendre le contrôle. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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