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Lessons in Survival.

For the laid-off, the self-taught, the bootcamp grad, the H1B 60-day clock and the OPT deadline. Written by someone who has been on your side of the system.

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A wide, atmospheric photograph of a vast, empty corporate conference room at dusk, captured… Ai 5 min read
Ai

B2B Buying Behavior: Why Your Funnel Measures a Room Buyers Already Left

A vendor I worked with in financial services spent the better part of last year defending a marketing budget.

K Katherine Henley
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A photorealistic editorial photograph of a quiet modern open-plan office at dusk, captured with… Ai 5 min read
Ai

Lesson Six: AI Job Displacement Won't Hit the Workers You Think

A friend of mine — call him D — spent four years becoming the person on his team who could write the gnarliest SQL in the building.

A Amelia Rutherford
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A dimly lit home office at night, photographed in moody chiaroscuro lighting, where a… Webmcp 12 min read
Webmcp

WebMCP Implementation in 2026: Shipping a Standard at 0% Adoption

The best time to ship a WebMCP implementation is right now, while the production adoption number is still rounding to zero. I know how that sounds.

W William Novak
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A dramatic close-up of a glowing computer monitor in a dark home office at… Webmcp 5 min read
Webmcp

WebMCP Implementation: I Shipped a Zero-Adoption W3C Standard on My Own Site

My access logs for last month: ClaudeBot and GPTBot together pulled 38,402 pages. Referral traffic from any AI surface back to the site that same month: 11 sessions. Eleven.

D David Thornton
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A young male developer sitting alone at a cluttered desk in a dimly lit… Bootcamp 5 min read
Bootcamp

Academic Honesty Won't Get You Hired. But Faking It Gets You Erased.

A friend of mine — I'll call him Devon — had his freeCodeCamp certification revoked in 2022, and the email took him four days to open.

H Hannah Mercer
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