When the Market Goes Quiet — Recognizing and Fixing a Thin Sweep

Eight runs in a row with almost nothing worth pursuing isn’t a sign to work harder, it’s a signal the rubric or the search itself needs recalibrating. This chapter is the most uncomfortable one to write, because it’s about the system telling you something you don’t want to hear: that a role class you’ve been chasing might be structurally thin, and that persistence isn’t the same as strategy.