The Last Gasp
It looks ascendant.Strongmen are flexing in Moscow, Beijing, Ankara, Budapest. Democracies feel shaky under the weight of disinformation, polarization, and nostalgia for “simpler times” that never really existed.On the surface,…
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H-1B Changes and the Mob Boss Problem
I’ve been stewing over the Trump Administration’s newly announced changes to the H-1B visa program—and I feel obligated to call this out: this is yet another policy that puts people’s…
Friendly Note System
Bullet journaling is powerful, but let’s be real: most engineers and neurodivergent professionals don’t have the time (or executive bandwidth) to maintain a complicated system. We’re not trying to design…
Deleted Honesty
Yesterday I deleted two things I’d written: a LinkedIn comment and a blog post. Both pointed out what should be obvious—the hypocrisy in how this country decides which lives are…
Vanishing Foundations
The rise of AI is being celebrated as inevitable “progress,” but look closer and you’ll see the hollowing out beneath our feet. Entry-level jobs, apprenticeships, the first rungs on the…