https://paddyspeaks.com/#personality PaddySpeaks essays in Personality Development. en Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/the-job-posting-is-not-the-job.html https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/the-job-posting-is-not-the-job.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Personality Development A visual field guide to the 2026 hiring market. Twelve scenes: why 244 applications now reach one triaging recruiter, a four-minute autopsy that proves whether a job exists, the org chart hiding behind every posting, the six-rung climb from stranger to advocate, the anatomy of a message that gets answered, and the thirty minutes a day that beat six hours of Easy Apply. https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/can-you-really-afford-the-bay-area.html https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/can-you-really-afford-the-bay-area.html Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Personality Development A seventeen-slide visual essay: one four-bedroom house in Santa Clara County followed from 1960 to 2026 — Proposition 13, the mortgage-rate myth, the $200,000 paradox, the RSU economy, AI and the 30-year mortgage — and why wealth may be better measured in years of freedom than in square feet. https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/the-subject-nobody-taught.html https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/the-subject-nobody-taught.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Personality Development Fourteen years of school. Four of college. Zero classes on the one thing you use every single day. A visual essay on the missing curriculum, the phrases parents pass down instead of principles, what $500 a month actually becomes over thirty years, and why rich flaunts while wealthy compounds. https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/dont-be-too-nice.html https://paddyspeaks.com/articles/dont-be-too-nice.html Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Personality Development Steve Jobs gave Indra Nooyi three hours and one blunt instruction. Most people hear it as permission to be a jerk. It isn't — four instructions, ten takeaways for work and life, and why the Bhagavad Gita's nishkama karma never told you to be a doormat.