The Junior Developer Extinction Event
Entry-level software engineering positions have dropped 60% since 2022. A Harvard study found companies cut junior hiring before AI can replace those roles....
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The Founder Burnout No One Talks About
Startup Snapshot surveyed 400+ founders: 81% do not openly share their stress, and only 10% feel comfortable raising it with investors.
45+ Years in Technology: A Journey
From programming at age 7, to seeing the world in the Navy, to running 3,000+ AWS instances....
Building Software for Government: What Nobody Tells You
Government procurement is maddening. Security requirements are exhaustive. The pace is glacial....
3,000 AWS Instances Later: The Real Cost of Cloud
What it actually cost to run 3,000 AWS instances: the bill, the surprises, and the architecture decisions that drove the spend....
Interview Alternatives That Actually Work
Evidence-based hiring methods that predict engineering success: structured interviews, work samples, and behavioral questions. Based on Sackett 2022 meta-analysis....
The Founder Self-Awareness Advantage
Self-awareness isn't a trait you have or lack—it's a practice. The specific habits that enable honest self-evaluation, from feedback systems to reflection rituals....
Why Hiring Senior Engineers Is Broken
The senior engineering interview process tests preparation, not ability. Downleveled offers to senior candidates are routine....
Meetings Are Bugs in Your Organization
The $37 billion figure everyone quotes is a 2022 estimate, not a measurement. Meetings are organizational bugs. How to fix the process....
Why I Stopped Giving Advice
Most advice fails, and not because it is wrong. The gap between the giver's context and the receiver's reality is where well-meaning guidance goes to die....
Why Async Communication Beats Meetings (Almost Always)
Most meetings are waste disguised as work. The information could have been an email. Teams that default to async outperform teams that fill calendars with meetings....
The Slack Trap: When Communication Tools Kill Productivity
Slack's own figure is about 90 minutes of active use a workday against more than nine hours connected. The time-saver became the drain....
The Senior Engineer Plateau
Only 10-15% of engineers reach Staff level. Why the senior-to-staff jump is the hardest career transition in software....
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