The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer: Tech's Most In-Demand Hybrid Role
FDEs are versatile engineers who embed with customers to solve integration challenges and use those experiences to improve the company's core product.
Tech Career Strategy
Strategies, advice, and frameworks for navigating careers in the technology industry, including promotions, work-life balance, and professional growth.
Reading List
The End of Software Engineering as a Lifetime Career
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AI is transforming software engineering into a high-earning but short-lived career where technical skill atrophy is an unavoidable trade-off for economic relevance.
Trading the Office for the Front Lines: Young Workers' Quest for AI-Proof Careers
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Young workers are pivoting to physical trades and emergency services to escape the threat of AI automation in office-based careers.
The Case for Waiting: Why It's Okay to Be 'Left Behind' by Tech Hype
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It is better to be a late adopter of stable, useful technology than an early adopter of unreliable hype.
Beyond Shallow Competence: Building Engineering Intuition in the AI Era
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Junior developers must intentionally resist the shortcut of AI-generated code to build the deep architectural intuition and failure-recognition skills that define senior-level expertise.
To Get Anything Done in Tech, Learn How Companies Work
Whatever your goals in tech, you need to master how big companies work to get them done.
How to Be (and Be Seen as) Strategic
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Being (and being seen as) strategic means balancing context, proximate objectives, and execution across product, technical, team, and personal domains—especially under resource constraints.