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Why Am I Doing the Thinking for You?
‘What do you think?’ without a position isn’t a question — it’s a task assignment. State your opinion first. Let people react to something concrete.
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Life Happens at 1x Speed
Why I stopped consuming content at 2x speed, and the simple rule that changed how I listen to everything.
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Creating Your Own Opportunities
The best career opportunities don’t necessarily come from your manager. They come from seeing potential in the boring work already on your plate.
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The Strange Case of Engineers Who Dismiss AI
Some engineers dismiss AI coding tools as ‘garbage’ without trying modern versions. Their outdated opinions are costing them.
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AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.
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What Actually Makes You Senior
The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry
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“ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy
When you paste ChatGPT’s response instead of your own feedback, you’re not being helpful. You’re being lazy and creating more work for everyone.
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Stop Avoiding Politics
Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.
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Good Engineer/Bad Engineer
Why the best engineers aren’t always the smartest — and what separates engineers who ship from those who just code.
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Duplication Is Not the Enemy
We’re taught to eliminate duplication at all costs. But the wrong abstraction is far more expensive than a little copy-paste. Here’s why.
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