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On Principled People | Collin Mickels

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PUBLISHED January 14, 2026 BY COLLIN MICKELS People often say you should work with “principled people.” The word gets used as shorthand for trustworthiness, predictability, and safety. The assumption is that if someone has principles, you can build something durable with them—whether a company, a partnership, or a life. I think that’s wrong, or at least incomplete. Being principled is not the same thing as being good to work with. Some of the most dangerous people I’ve encountered were deeply principled. Their principles were simply ruthless ones. A principle is just a constraint. It tells you

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