If Advice Could Kill

Van Hickman & Tereza Iofciu
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Van Hickman and Tereza Iofciu take one piece of career advice everyone repeats and come at it from completely different angles. Not to tell you what's right, but to help you find what's right for you. reiteralabs.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    Learn AI or be left behind

    Second episode is up. The advice this time: “Learn AI or be left behind.” Except that is not the version people actually say. The one you hear is friendlier, and sharper: “AI won’t replace you, but someone using AI will.” It moves the threat off the technology and onto the person sitting next to you. We went at it for half an hour and did not agree about the most basic part of it. Van thinks nobody is behind. Tereza thinks that depends entirely on who you work for, and said so about four seconds after Van finished saying it. What episode isn’t complete without a pizza metaphor baked in? We are two episodes in and still getting a feel for what this show is, which we said out loud on the recording rather than pretending otherwise. One thing we circled and never resolved, so we will hand it to you instead: if your company went AI-first this year and left you to work it out on your own, are you actually behind? Or does it only feel that way? ❤️ Van & Tereza This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reiteralabs.substack.com

  2. Aug 10

    Just be yourself at work

    “Just be yourself at work.” It sounds like permission. So why does it keep costing the people who take it literally? In the first episode of If Advice Could Kill, Van Hickman and Tereza Iofciu pull apart the advice everyone repeats and nobody examines: who it was designed for, what you lose without ever being told you lost it, and why “weird” is just the word a workplace uses for not conforming. Tereza explains why she had to leave the career ladder to afford being herself. Van admits she spent years telling herself the corporate version of her was the real one. Neither of them walks out with a tidy answer, and that’s the point. Two founders, two continents, one question: was the advice ever designed for you? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reiteralabs.substack.com

    Just be yourself at work

  3. Jul 25

    Trailer

    The trailer’s here. A quick 60-second hello before we start. If Advice Could Kill takes one piece of career advice everyone repeats and comes at it from completely different angles. Not to tell you what’s right, but to help you find what’s right for you. First episode drops August 10. Follow the show now, wherever you listen. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reiteralabs.substack.com

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Van Hickman and Tereza Iofciu take one piece of career advice everyone repeats and come at it from completely different angles. Not to tell you what's right, but to help you find what's right for you. reiteralabs.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Van Hickman & Tereza Iofciu
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Van Hickman
  • Show Website
    If Advice Could Kill