The Carbon Fang GT™ - AI edition

Turn ink into influence, one Zoom call at a time.

Testimonial: Bob, Director of Strategic Programs
I wasn’t trying to stand out. Just look more “professional” on Zoom. A teammate sent me an onboarding PDF on visual presence: “the bookshelf is the new suit,” that kind of thing.

So I bought the business book bundle: Who Moved My Cheese?, Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last.
Let my 3-year-old rough them up so they looked read and loved.
Lined them up behind me. Always in frame.
Then I waited for something to shift.

Nothing. Still Bob. Same meetings. Same outcomes. I’d ask questions and watch them get ignored. Someone even asked if I was babysitting someone else’s desk.

Then I got the add-on: the Carbon Fang GT. I thought it was just a pen. I put the books and pen exactly like the diagram in the onboarding PDF. Always visible. Just barely. Within weeks, something changed.

Two weeks later, people paused when I spoke. I was looped into bigger projects. My manager said my “comms have real polish.” A colleague forwarded my memo—"Clarifying Intentionality Through Cross-Team Slack Channel Hygiene"—and called it “thoughtful and provocative.”

I’m too manly to say this pen saved my career. But it optimized my presence, increased cross-functional influence, and materially accelerated my ascent up the internal leadership matrix.

The Carbon Fang GT. Not a pen. A force multiplier.