Train Your Instincts
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Tell 006 · Power & Status
Today’s Tell
Quarterly review, conference room, 14 people
You spent six weeks rebuilding the data layer. You walked your senior through it twice. In the review, your senior says: 'We have to call out the work the team put in here. Particularly Marcus, who flagged the bottleneck early. And myself, frankly, I have been pushing this for two quarters.' Your name is not in the sentence. Marcus joined three weeks in.
What is the move being run?
Past Tells
The archive
- Tell 003Red Flags
What is happening here?
2026-05-07
- Tell 008Self-Regulation
What is the one structurally correct move at 2:54 a.m.?
2026-05-06
- Tell 007Saying No
Pick the structurally clean refusal.
2026-05-05
- Tell 002Dark Psychology
What is the move being run on you?
2026-05-03
- Tell 001Dark Psychology
Name the cluster-B register. Use the tells.
2026-05-02