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I keep a bullet journal. I'm not one of those people you see on Pinterest with the fancy spreads – I mostly just use black ink, the standard setup, and the occasional custom collection. Every time I join a new team, I go to the next fresh page, and on top of that page I write: "WTF - [Team Name]."…

I. The Bumper The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to fetch a bumper that he’d bought for his souped-up Volks­wagen Golf R. The American seller had balked…

“I was devastated, but life goes on and I feel fortunate for where I work now,” said Kiew, who never met Musk but witnessed him famously carrying a kitchen sink through Twitter’s San Francisco headqua

My Journey from Discontent to Discovery Two and a half years ago, I found myself at a crossroads. My career path was a patchwork of sales and odd jobs—from pest control to driving for Uber to moving p

The Brutality Reality of Hunting For Cyber Work A New Experience The last 3 months have been a bit of a shock to me and a first in my career. Firstly, a bit on context, as I don’t want this post to be interpreted as conspiracy or the diatribe of an “angry black man”. With that said I’ll provide some…

Maybe it’s all in what you’re used to. In fact, I’m sure it is. I grew up with two, hardworking, blue collar parents—a mechanic, and a cosmetologist. We lived in a town where neighbors looked after neighbors, and the street lights turned off by 9. A town where you have to buffer a few hours for a…

Crafting a standout resume for a cybersecurity practitioner position not only involves showcasing your technical prowess and soft skills but also requires strategic use of keywords to ensure your application passes through automated screening systems. Here’s a restructured guide with an emphasis on…

assume-breach 11 min read· Jan 27, 2024 -- Hi all! So, this is going to be a different type of post. I’ve tried to stay a little off the radar personally with my blogs and Twitter account for a lot of reasons. It’s not hard to find out who I am. I have links to my Twitter account and this blog on my…

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance 12/10/2025 Understanding how oscillating between exploration and exploitation unlocks maximum enjoyment from life #philosophy #meaning #personal Revisiting the AI Bubble 07/10/2025 Why a major crash, AGI, and millions of jobs replaced aren't mutually…

Recent tech layoffs have left many questioning the industry’s stability. However, a closer look reveals that these layoffs are not a sign of economic struggles, but rather a strategic move by tech companies to realign their priorities and invest in the future. The tech sector is pouring billions of…

I spent a fair portion of my adult life working for large tech companies. In all my interactions with peers, no other topic caused as much cynicism and angst as performance management — that is, the labyrinthine processes the companies follow to decide who to fire and who to reward for exemplary…

A mere 700 IT jobs were added in the US last year compared to 267,000 the year prior, it's claimed. It'd be easy to blame layoffs, but that's not all there is to it, says tech consultancy Janco Associates. Based on analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics data by Janco, news that the IT industry…

I’ve created five CodeQL queries that catch potentially potent bugs in the OpenSSL libcrypto API, a widely adopted but often unforgiving API that can be misused to cause memory leaks, authentication bypasses, and other subtle cryptographic issues in implementations. These queries—which I developed…

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance 12/10/2025 Understanding how oscillating between exploration and exploitation unlocks maximum enjoyment from life #philosophy #meaning #personal Revisiting the AI Bubble 07/10/2025 Why a major crash, AGI, and millions of jobs replaced aren't mutually…

Ben Rothke 6 min read· Sep 12, 2023 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size https://endgamepr.com/ In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in 2025. Their research shows that global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350%, from…

The following essay is adapted from a social media post. It attracted quite a bit of attention, so I decided to refine the argument here. I spent more than 25 years in tech. If you asked me for advice today, I’d open with a warning: don’t let a corporate job, no matter how great, become your whole…

By Lauren Weber | Photographs by Jovelle Tamayo for The Wall Street Journal Updated Nov. 2, 2023 at 9:49 am ET The return-to-office battle between workers and employers is entering a more combative phase. Workers are filing more charges of disability discrimination to federal and state agencies, and…

Today Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith shared insight on the global cybersecurity landscape and introduced our Secure Future Initiative. These engineering advances anticipate future cyberthreats, such as increasing digital attacks on identity systems. They also address how we will…

Some of the biggest names in tech have unleashed layoffs over the past few days. Is this a bad sign for the tech industry as a whole? Expedia, Waymo, LinkedIn, Bandcamp, and Stack Overflow have all made significant cuts to their workforces since October 15. That follows layoffs at the start of the…

Google used to be a company that rarely did layoffs, but this year job cuts are almost a monthly occurrence. The latest group to see cuts is Google's news division, which CNBC's Jennifer Elias reports is losing an estimated 40–45 jobs, according to an Alphabet Workers Union spokesperson. Google News…

I’ve been thinking about moats a lot lately. And how they apply to career and personal growth. For those who have never heard the term, it’s common terminology among the investor folk. Warren Buffet made the phrase famous, referring to a business’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage. You…

When workplaces are remade by a tectonic shift — women flooding into the work force, the rise of computing — it typically takes some time for economists, psychologists, sociologists and other scholars

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance 12/10/2025 Understanding how oscillating between exploration and exploitation unlocks maximum enjoyment from life #philosophy #meaning #personal Revisiting the AI Bubble 07/10/2025 Why a major crash, AGI, and millions of jobs replaced aren't mutually…

For the second year in a row, inflation outpaced growth in U.S. engineering salaries, according to the IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey. That’s the first multiyear dip in real income since the 2000s. In current dollars, the median income of U.S. engineers and other tech professionals who…

Workers who telecommute tend to be more aware of cybersecurity threats than those who spend most of their time in a physical office and are more likely to take action to ward them off, according to our new peer-reviewed study. Our findings are based on Amazon Mechanical Turk survey data collected…

When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr’s return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-minute bike ride from the company’s Brooklyn office but instead was required to report to one in Los…

In a companywide email sent earlier this year, the tech company’s CEO Satya Nadella warned staff of salary freezes and cuts to the bonus budget. Loren Elliott—Getty Images

I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you

Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforc

Tech workers are debating if the days of $500,000 salaries are over. Sesame / Getty Images Tech workers on anonymous networking site Blind debated whether the end of $500,000 salaries is here. While t

Unsupervised LearningPostsDon’t Fix Things; Build Pipelines I think one of the most powerful ideas in business—or any kind of organization really—is the distinction between fixing things vs. building

Published March 20, 2023 Credits Dan Vahaba Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Schools Fuqua School of Business DURHAM, N.C. – Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Manager

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Adam Jackson, a founder of Braintrust, a decentralized talent network that runs on a blockchain. “All this buzz around ChatGPT, it’s mostly just sizzle,” Jackson said. “It’s not changing how companies hire.” He said people are irreplaceable for jobs that require understanding human needs, such as…

This is my third cycle of industry-wide layoffs in tech. I landed my first computer job in the late 1990s. Soon after, I moved to the US and waltzed right into the middle of the dot-com crash. We crac

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