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Career Strategy Lab (Powered by Inversion)

The Inversion Engine™ – See the Risks Before You Leap

 

  • Users select career paths (e.g., startup founder, grad school, corporate ladder, freelance).

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  • The engine simulates long-term consequences of poor decisions in that path—burnout, debt, stagnation, or misaligned values.

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  • Based on psychology, opportunity cost, and real-world case failures.

  • Helps users eliminate bad decisions first, before chasing “perfect” ones.

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Backed by: mental models like opportunity cost, risk vs. uncertainty, survivorship bias.

Roleplay Career Forks in High-Fidelity Simulations

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  • Interactive simulations place the user in complex, realistic decision points:

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Examples : 

  • Accept a high-paying but soul-sucking job?

  • Launch a startup with no savings?

  • Stay in a secure role vs. taking a lateral move?

  • Each simulation includes consequences that play out over simulated years.

  • Builds “judgment under uncertainty” muscles.

  • Focus: Pattern recognition > prediction.

Decision Journaling + Mental Replay

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  • The platform encourages users to write short reflections before and after decisions.

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Includes prompts like:

  • What assumptions am I making?

  • What’s the worst-case scenario?

  • What mental models apply here?

  • Journals are AI-analyzed to show thinking blind spots, overconfidence, or recurring biases.

  • Users can “replay” past decisions to see what changed over time.

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Mental models taught through this: confirmation bias, hindsight bias, compounding, feedback loops.

Career Experiments, Not Just Choices

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“You should look at decisions as bets with probabilistic outcomes.”

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  • Instead of thinking in rigid “this OR that” decisions, users learn to design career experiments (e.g., 3-month freelance project before quitting).

  • Test hypotheses before committing (e.g., shadowing, sabbatical, cross-functional rotation).

  • The Lab guides users to test small and iterate, just like in product design.

  • Based on: optionality, second-order thinking, loss aversion.

Build a Personal Career Mental Model Playbook

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  “If you don’t have the right models in your head, you’ll make terrible decisions.”

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  • As users go through the Lab, they earn and refine a personal library of mental models applied to their own life. Models like:

  • Circle of Competence

  • Margin of Safety

  • Path Dependence

  • Incentive Filters

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These become the user’s decision compass for future forks in the road.

Output: Downloadable or printable career playbook with your own frameworks.

For Realists, Not Dreamers

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“You want to be realistic and brutally honest with yourself.”

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  • Career Strategy Lab isn’t about “follow your passion” clichés. 

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It’s a tool for:

Students who want clarity before committing to costly paths.

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Mid-career professionals stuck in high-paying traps.

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Smart generalists unsure where to apply their talents next.

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  • It’s brutally honest. Doesn’t tell you what to do—shows you what can go wrong and how to think better about what matters to you.

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