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Writing at Scale: AI-Powered Content Creation
300+ Deep Dives: Human-Authored, AI-Produced
AI & Technology
Risk-based AI Validation: Rule Tiers and Infraction Budgets That Cut Retries
Strict, all-or-nothing checks burn tokens and time. Learn how risk-based AI validation uses rule tiers and an infraction budget to cut retries and boost ROI.
Prompt Low-Probability AI Responses for Distinct, Coherent Options
Most LLMs default to safe answers. Ask for multiple low-probability, coherent options with guardrails to surface sharper angles faster—without losing control.
AI Vendor Risk Management: Treat AI Tools Like Vendors
Worry less about model memorization and more about provider controls. Learn how to run AI vendor risk management using retention, training, and access policies you already trust.
Career Growth
Get Hired Without a Resume: Proof First, Network Strong
Static resumes get flattened by AI. This guide shows how to get hired without a resume by leading with shipped proof and trusted networks.
Build a Financial Buffer That Buys Time and Better Decisions
Build a financial buffer that buys time, lowers panic, and supports deliberate choices during turbulence—here’s how to set it up, fund it, and deploy it.
Turn Career Disruption Into Opportunity with a Structured Pause
Disruption creates a brief window to re-choose your direction. This post shows how to run a short, structured pause to clarify constraints, shrink fears, and design aligned next moves.
Content & Personal Brand
Optimize content for AI search: from clickbait to clarity
AI now elevates posts by clarity and insight, not catchy hooks. Optimize content for AI search with answer-first structure and dense, citable claims that humans and systems can reliably surface.
Build Evergreen Content Library: Reliable 6-Step System
Publish on your own domain to turn fleeting posts into durable, interlinked artifacts. Build an evergreen content library that compounds visibility and trust.
Focus on Fewer Platforms to Grow Real Signal
Tired of posting everywhere but connecting nowhere? Focus on fewer platforms, prune low-signal channels, and reinvest your bandwidth into real dialogue that compounds. This engineer’s approach turns reach into resonance with a simple, measurable system.
Education & Learning
Stop Paying for Permission: Skills vs Credentials for Engineers
Engineers often confuse learning with buying permission. This 90-day framework clarifies skills vs credentials for engineers so you invest minimally and ship real proof.
Make Time to Learn: Protect Small Morning Blocks That Compound
Stop waiting for a lull to upskill. Make time to learn by blocking small, early sessions you defend like critical meetings so momentum compounds.
Learn Skills Faster without Burnout: A 3-Part Progress Plan
Break out of tutorial hell by aligning your time with purpose, a reachable weekly goal, and a daily practice loop. Learn skills faster without burning out.
Engineering Strategy
Differentiate when AI commoditizes knowledge with judgment, execution, and trust
AI is flattening knowledge advantages; your defensible moat is applied judgment, end-to-end delivery, and trust inside real constraints. Learn how to reframe decisions, own the critical path, and systematize relationships to differentiate when AI commoditizes knowledge.
Prevent Knowledge Debt: A Proven Way to Stay Fast
Speed creates volume—and silent debt. Separate creation from management and run a simple weekly loop to prevent knowledge debt and keep teams fast.
Build AI-First System Design Interview: Measure the Path, Not the Pitch
Learn how to build AI-first system design interview loops that start with an AI baseline and drip evolving constraints. Review the full path to surface real engineering judgment.
Leadership
Measure engineering leadership beyond headcount: leverage, clarity, and ownership
Headcount isn’t leadership. This piece shows how to measure engineering leadership beyond headcount by designing clarity, systems, and ownership that multiply output.
Optimize founder ROI: Make freedom per dollar your metric
Stop chasing ARR at the expense of your energy. Optimize founder ROI by measuring freedom per dollar and using margin-focused levers to cut recurring work.
How to Lead with Questions: First-Principles Scripts for Better Decisions
Trading quick answers for sharp, first-principles questions turns teams into problem-solvers. Learn how to lead with questions to raise decision quality and reduce costly mistakes.
Mindset & Well-Being
The Tomato Upgrade Principle: How to maximize small purchase ROI
Stop over-optimizing trivial buys. Learn to maximize small purchase ROI by defaulting to repeatable quality upgrades and saving deep analysis for rare, high-stakes decisions.
AI Prompts for Mindset Reset: A Judgment-Free, Tone-Tuned Self-Coach
Lean on AI prompts for mindset reset as a tone-tuned, judgment-free mirror that delivers timely nudges so you keep shipping without burning extra time.
Burnout Prevention for Software Engineers: Reset Before the Drift
Burnout prevention for software engineers starts before the crash—early 360 check-ins, firm boundaries, and a four-day reset that protects energy without quitting.
Productivity
How to Prioritize Before Automation: Protect Judgment and Time
Lead with human judgment, set non-negotiable boundaries, and only then let AI handle well-defined tasks. This framework helps you reclaim time without inviting more work.
Automate repetitive tasks with AI to move from doing to directing
Stop letting routine decisions drain focus. Automate repetitive tasks with AI so you move from grinding through work to directing outcomes while background loops quietly compound.
Improve Developer Workflow with AI: Essential, Proven Gains
Stop tolerating daily dev friction. Improve developer workflow with AI by time-boxing small upgrades that smooth logs, tools, and routines, compounding ROI each sprint.
Professional Development
Set mastery goals for engineers: proven finish lines
Occasional mastery goals with public finish lines transform scattered effort into visible outcomes. Engineers and AI builders can ship, rest, and grow.
How to Write for Stakeholders: Clarity That Speeds Decisions
Learn how to write for stakeholders by tuning clarity, tone, and format to the decision and decision-maker. Write for people to accelerate decisions and influence.
How to Find an Honest Mentor Who Delivers Candid, High-Signal Feedback
Choose mentors for distance and care, not prestige. Learn to source candid, objective feedback, set real stakes, and close the loop so advice becomes action.
Work-Life Balance
Invest in Memory Dividends: Presence That Compounds
A reminder to invest in memory dividends now: design your schedule for presence, map age-bound windows, and build small rituals that compound for decades.
Set Boundaries to Prevent Burnout: 4 Proven Moves You Can Repeat
Reset your rhythms before crisis hits. This playbook shows how to set boundaries to prevent burnout with rituals, recovery holds, weekly no’s, and a joy habit.
Avoid Burnout in Toxic Workplaces: Protection Beats Passion
Burnout isn’t a personal failure—it’s a systems issue. Use evidence logs, enforceable boundaries, trusted support, and exit options to avoid burnout in toxic workplaces.