Careers
10 min read
What Nobody Tells You About Surviving Layoffs
The email landed at 9:14 on a Tuesday. Fourteen minutes into the workday, before I'd finished my coffee, with a calendar invite titled "Quick Sync" and no agenda. By 9:40 I was locked out of Slack.
Restructuring
6 min read
Tech Workforce Restructuring: Which Side of the Org Chart Will You Be On?
The delivery program I ran at a bank in Singapore had 23 names on its org chart. Eleven of us — including me — never wrote a line of code and never spoke to a customer. We coordinated.
Semiconductors
4 min read
Intel Corporate Restructuring: Read the Business Units, Not the Headcount
Headcount is the least informative number in Intel's restructuring, and it is the number everyone watches.
Semiconductors
9 min read
Tech Layoffs vs. a 67,000-Worker Shortage: The Semiconductor Industry's Split Screen
In July 2023, the Semiconductor Industry Association and Oxford Economics published a projection that stopped me mid-scroll: 67,000.
Workflow
5 min read
Background Removal at Scale: The Sixth Lesson About Why Your Product Photos Still Look Amateur
I once lost a weekend to 340 sneaker photos. The client sold them across Amazon and their own Shopify store, and the listings looked like they'd been shot by four different people over three years…
Semiconductors
5 min read
Memory Chips vs. Logic Chips: What AI Chip Demand Actually Rewards, and Why SK Hynix Matters
The number that stopped me was not Nvidia's. It was a memory company's stock roughly tripling while everyone stared at the chip that gets all the magazine covers.
Job Search
6 min read
The AI Degree Won't Save You. Here's What the Program Actually Buys.
The advice you have heard, probably from a career counselor or a headline, goes like this: the field is exploding, so get the degree. Get the credential that says "AI" on it and the door opens.
Memorabilia
9 min read
AI Company Culture and Memorabilia: What a $475 Swag Box, an OpenAI Hoodie, and a Google Tank Top Are Actually Worth
A used cardboard box sold for $475 last year. Not the contents — well, the contents too, but the box was the point.
Ai Education
5 min read
The AI Degree Won't Save You — But This Materials Science Angle Might: Lesson Six on Artificial Intelligence Education
A friend messaged me last spring with a screenshot of a program page. Morgan State had announced a new four-year AI degree, and she wanted to know if she should enroll.
Llm
6 min read
LLM Prompt Engineering for Editorial Judgment: What Actually Moved the Needle
I gave a model forty paragraphs from a newsletter draft and asked it to rate each one from 1 to 10 on "editorial quality." It returned thirty-one sevens, six eights, two sixes, and one nine.