green lights are for traffic.
don't wait to be told. move like you're already late.
opportunity doesn't knock. it whispers.
most miss it — they're tuned to noise, not nuance.
it lives in the pause between words. the friction no one questions. the disruptions they all dismiss.
i don't wait for doors. i look for cracks. don't wait to be invited — by then, you're already late.
this happened last week.
casual lunch. ai came up. small talk to them — signal to me.
no pitch. no posturing. just a quiet drop of clarity on where the world is heading and why we better move now.
clarity lands different when it's unforced.
elevator ride after. vp of operations. 30 seconds. no prep. no slides.
it was time to turn ai from a buzzword into a backbone. make every department smarter, faster, more dangerous.
they leaned in. asked questions. engaged. you don't get that unless you hit something real.
the spark was lit. but sparks die if you let them sit.
i didn't.
four pages of system flow, risk-reward profiles, tooling, execution map. not fluff. not a vision board. infrastructure.
sent it straight to the top. coo, vp ops, vp software. zero middlemen. zero dilution.
24 hours, endorsed. 48 — greenlit.
now we're aligning cross-org on a vertical that didn't exist 3 days earlier. not because i asked. because i moved.
this isn't me trying to brag. it's a broadcast.
a proof of concept for what happens when you move on signal, not permission.
green lights are for traffic.
i move when it makes sense.
and i share it because you might need to hear it:
stop waiting. listen closer. and when you feel that crack in the system? execute.
— kevin