Posts that explore the frameworks behind career direction. Archetypes, ikigai, crystallized intelligence, and the patterns that shape what kind of work actually fits who you are.
Ikigai is usually taught as a four-circle puzzle to solve. At mid-career, the useful version is the opposite: noticing which circles have gone quiet, and what the silence is costing you.
A career archetype is a pattern that describes how you naturally create value at work — not what you do, but the underlying shape of what drives you. Here's the 16-archetype framework behind the Remix Career analysis.
