Articles and interviews on growth strategy, community building, and portfolio careers.
Every Friday, I sit on the other side of the screen and ask questions. For Rosh Hashanah, I flipped the script, compiling the questions you ask me most often privately. Here's who I am when I'm not wearing the community hat.
He started as a junior engineer in Rhode Island, built exports to 67 countries from zero, and mortgaged his home to buy the company he worked for. Avi Nevel on service, the courage to ask, and ten years of giving back.
After a Harvard PhD, she returned to the family publishing house and found everyone saw her only as "Racheli's daughter." Dr. Yael Hadass on the long road to a name of her own.
Nine years as a salaried employee, a landing in Gibraltar with no job and no network, and a first deal closed in two weeks. Ayelet Mamo Shay on how to build a portfolio career one anchor at a time.
60,000 fractional executives in 2022, 120,000 in 2024, a 24.7 billion dollar market by 2034. What created the model, who it is for, and why it is the first anchor of a portfolio career.
A two-month Knesset fill-in became 22 years and the role of chief of staff to the President of Israel. Today, at 50, Rivka Ravitz is building a portfolio career of lecturing, consulting and writing that works even in an emergency.
Years of exhausting pitches and ideas that died on budget. Today Doron Tsur works as a one-person AI studio producing video from home, alongside his creative role at Overwolf.
Senior roles in large organizations, then software companies built without investors. Moshe Panzer admits bootstrapping wasn't an ideology, and explains why he hires musicians and farmers into tech and how he views employees with side projects.
At 40 she had already resigned, and instead of leaving she built Israel's fintech community from the ground up at Citi. After 16 years she felt like a dinosaur, left without a plan, and at 52 she is CEO of an AI insurance startup.
Thirteen years at Elta, 30 engineers under her, VP of R&D. At 47, Zohar Noy gave up the title and is rebuilding herself across four parallel hats. What she would do differently, and her advice for anyone still employed.
Elad Kobi was injured as a combat engineer, then opened a bar in Modi'in, where he learned his ironclad rules for genuine networking. Today, he is the CEO of M.ai and Anthropic's official partner in Israel.
At 50, you don't lose energy; you learn where to invest it. Yaron Flint, an expert in corporate innovation and author of *Beyond Networking*, dismantles the illusions behind building connections, explains how to spot "innovation theater," and reveals why a plan is merely a foundation for change.
Yossi Melcer didn't jump straight from his role in Bougie Herzog's political bureau to an independent practice. He spent three years as an employed lawyer first, and only then launched the firm he'd envisioned even before his time in the Knesset. Today, he's a lawyer, a mediator, and an author.
Udi Volkov, formerly an advisor at the British Embassy and to Tzipi Livni, made a complete career change at 40. He learned AI from scratch and is now VP Marketing at a defense-tech company, while also researching what he calls the 'post-reality' era.
Top AI industry leaders are warning of a loss of control as the job market changes at a dizzying pace. It's time to understand why Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an illusion and how transitioning to a portfolio career model will give you back control over your time and purpose.
I asked six community members, from psychedelics to deep tech, five questions about the opportunity most people still don't see. The answers draw a single map, and what they all share isn't where you build, but what you connect to what.
106,785 WhatsApp messages, nine years, and 37 real moments turned into a keepsake book. On the process, the mistakes along the way, and what I learned working with AI on something this personal.
Why would a researcher who published a Nature breakthrough and sold technology to Pfizer at 30 choose to leave the "golden cage" of senior pharma management at 50 for a portfolio career? An interview with Dr. Etgar Levy-Nissenbaum on cancer, technology commercialization, and navigating personal and professional crises in midlife.
How do you turn a random pile of business cards into a strategic methodology? Yaron Flint, an international corporate-innovation expert, shatters the networking myth and explains why most executives retreat into tactics - and what "innovation theater" looks like from the inside.
Did AI really kill Google? Yoav Bernstein, a 51-year-old SEO expert, explains why organic traffic is still the highest-quality channel, warns against "AI traps," and talks about the importance of building alternatives and employment flexibility in midlife.
How do you combine parliamentary work, law, estates, and diplomacy across Europe? Rafi Hoyman, head of the Trusts and Estates division at Keren Hayesod, shares the secrets to building a unique portfolio career and breaking barriers in the European market.
What happens when an entrepreneur moves from the public and diplomatic sector to the business negotiating table? Davidi Hermelin explains how building trust and reading the political map opens doors that stay closed to even the best technology in the world.
Naomi Himeyn-Reish left a senior role at Israel's Ministry of Economy for independence, technology, and a return to her PhD. In this interview, she shares insights on bringing AI into small businesses, working with local government, and reinventing yourself in midlife.
How does an Israeli startup become a success in the conservative German market? Albert Bravo shares insights on Health Tech regulation, business culture gaps, and the strategic pivot that saved his company.
After a decade in tech and a failed startup, Omer Yarkowich cracked the method for surviving a world of extreme uncertainty. Read how a "positive constraint" becomes an unfair advantage, and why he chose to break his book apart specifically for AI tools.
A macroeconomic and employment analysis reveals that people 40 and older are standing at the center of a "perfect storm" combining a midlife crisis, the shift to AI automation, and the fallout of war. Age 40 is emerging as a clear strategic turning point.
How does someone reach the world's most sensitive decision-making rooms at a young age, and how is artificial intelligence about to change the way entire countries function? Policy leader Yam Atir (Darwin AI) in a deep interview about impostor syndrome, the 60-second rule, and the frontiers young people need to enter today.
While everyone talks about innovation from air-conditioned offices, Vered Mane met technology on the toughest ground there is. How do you grow from traditional, male-dominated industries into leading data and AI, and how do you handle the "overqualified" label in midlife? Insights from a fascinating interview on building a resilient, results-driven career.
What does a week look like for someone who sleeps in a position in Lebanon on Sunday and runs an operation for a billionaire from a hotel suite on Wednesday? Moish Yaul proves that in the new world, the ability to combine extreme worlds is the biggest competitive edge there is.
The world is changing at a dizzying pace and none of us know what jobs will even exist in the future. I decided to write my son a letter (from dad, 2026 model) to open in 15 years, with 4 basic principles that have nothing to do with career, and everything to do with life itself.
From the outside, tech looks like a glittering dream, but from the inside it's usually chaos, and a "golden cage." After a deep conversation with a marketing VP who's seen some of Israel's biggest unicorns up close, I distilled the insights anyone building a career today needs to read.
The gripping story of Ezer Nach Vonunu, who ran a giant operation in the wine industry, went through a painful personal and business collapse, and rose from the wreckage to build a structured management method that today saves companies and organizations.
After advising dozens of startups and building Israel's leading HR community, David Golan explains why companies get hiring wrong, how real networking actually works, and how to reinvent your career at 40.
Arik Yavilevich has been through every stage, from founder and CTO of Clicktale to an exit, and today he's a mentor and entrepreneur at heart in the world of IoT and hardware. In a focused interview he explains why most tech projects fail, how the AI revolution expands developers' independence, and why maker (DIY) culture matters more today than ever. A glimpse inside the head of a technical polyg
Pilots at giant corporations tend to die fast, but Itai Green has a different method for execution on the ground. A look at the gap between the pitch deck and the invoice, and how to build a global network. Here on the blog.
In an era when everyone job-hops every couple of years, Marina Risher survived a quarter century at the same company by reinventing herself again and again. Today she's a senior product manager and a career coach who uses AI to crack job interviews. Here are her insights.
What does the digital transformation of giant brands actually look like? What's the "muscle" young marketers are losing in the age of AI? And how do you leave a comfortable global career in North America to make aliyah to Israel midway through life? A summary of the inspiring interview with Ian Berkowitz.
How do you combine daily Torah study at 5am, raising 10 children in Arad, and running a technology company leading Israel's energy storage revolution? Israel Zeidner, CEO of "Bereshit Solar," proves you can crack the "both/and" model and create real technological innovation without cutting corners or compromising your values.
We used to pay tens of thousands of dollars to web developers, designers, and automation experts. Today, AI tools let us become versatile and do things that used to be out of reach. A personal share: how I built a website and designed furniture for my new home - completely on my own.
Israel's job market is being shaken up. Discover the 3 critical shifts Y Combinator predicts for 2026, and how to go from operating the machine to managing its impact in the AI era.
A CPA and financial planner who works with businesses and the self-employed says everyone must be both employed and independent. Ido Neuman on the emotion behind money, the AI tools he built for clients, and why one piece of advice is worth a decade of fees.
Study, work hard, and retire free no longer works. Roei Livne, a 14-year entrepreneur who sold his share in the companies he founded, on pirates, personal sovereignty, and why everyone now needs to think like a manager of AI.
A PhD in neuroscience, a pharma company that went public in Canada and fell in clinical trials, then a cannabis group that survived a market most of its peers did not. Muli Mandel on what really holds an organization, and why external success without inner quiet is a bad deal.
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