Notes on how teams actually work.
Measurement, consent, and what happens when personality data meets an assistant. Written for people who have to defend the choice of instrument to somebody.
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Methodology5 July 2026
The swap test: how to tell personal advice from boilerplate
Swap one colleague's name into another's guidance. If it still reads fine, it was never really about either of them.
4 min
Teams1 July 2026
Four fast starters and one careful finisher: reading a team, not just its people
Individual profiles miss the structural story. A team's composition predicts its blind spots — and who quietly absorbs all the work nobody else wants.
6 min
The science24 June 2026
What “science-backed” actually means in personality testing
Every assessment claims to be science-backed. A short, honest guide to which claims hold up — and the questions that expose the ones that don't.
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