Starting New Roles: From Anxiety To Action
Starting a new role is stressful. In very important ways, your slate is wiped clean.
When you’ve spent years at a company, you stop noticing your "credibility asset base."
You have the track record. You have the social capital. You understand the unwritten rules, the internal acronyms, and which cages rattle in what winds.
Ovr time, if you've done your job well, you earne the right to be liste...
(Warning: if you read this essay to the end, don’t be surprised or discouraged to learn that your AI engineering courses from 2025 are already obsolete. This essay is an effort to focus you on the meta-engineering skills that matter regardless of what AI hype technology comes up).
I've been having conversations with former colleagues from Google DeepMind, who are now scattered across Anthropic,...
And here’s an opportunity for those of you looking for coding jobs.
While everyone's fighting for the same shrinking pool of Big Tech jobs, the federal government just opened a side door most people will ignore.
The US Tech Force program launched last week. They're hiring engineers—salaries $150K-$200K, no degree required, skills-based only.
Most self-taught coders will scroll past this.
They w...
Career Change To Tech