Field notes from an HRBP. Tools and strategies for the AI era.
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24
Jun
A new home for the HRBP Lab
1 min read
22
Jun
Stop taking the first draft
Using AI is where everyone starts. Directing it — deciding what good looks like before the draft exists and rejecting the competent-but-wrong take — is the skill that separates the HRBPs getting hours back.
6 min read
22
Jun
Nobody owns the seams
Every HR mess has the same fingerprint, and it isn't an ER problem — it's a seam problem. The HRBP move isn't more trackers. It's naming the work that lives in the gap and forcing an owner.
6 min read
22
Jun
Where do tomorrow's HRBPs come from?
Entry-level postings in NYC are down 37% since 2022. The fourth deliberate decision is invest — and it starts by redesigning one entry-level role before the on-ramp quietly closes.
7 min read
16
May
What only a human can do (even when AI could)
Subtract. Codify. Protect. The third deliberate decision: the work HRBPs should keep human on purpose, even when AI could plausibly do it.
6 min read
15
May
The Extra Time Challenge
What people actually do with the time AI gives them back — and the five questions HRBPs should ask before any automation initiative.
4 min read
14
May
PULSE: Death by Tracker
Your tracker pile is a design problem, not a tools problem.
1 min read
14
May
What did you write this week that you've written before?
Five questions to find the repetition in your leader's work — and turn it into a Claude skill by Friday.