Differentiate instead of optimize
Published on: 2025/12/05
Stop competing against A.I. and show off your humanity. Differentiate resumes, LinkedIn, and other career tools by imbuing your story.
AI and WorkCareer Strategy

Exploring how technology, culture, and economics are reshaping where and how we work—from AI adoption and productivity economics to wage impact and new career models. Every post is written by me, Charla Myers—because AI may have read about the last 30 years of tech, but I’ve lived it.

Stop competing against A.I. and show off your humanity. Differentiate resumes, LinkedIn, and other career tools by imbuing your story.

Today’s investment anxiety about AI and tech mirrors 1997, a time when years of layoffs finally gave way to a boom in business adoption and a new wave of opportunity.

How the job search process became broken in the age of AI—and why your resume needs context, story, and human detail beyond the keywords.
