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Writing at Scale: AI-Powered Content Creation
300+ Deep Dives: Human-Authored, AI-Produced
AI & Technology
Reduce Learning Curve with AI: Ship v0 in New Domains, Build Judgment, and Know When to Call a Pro
Use AI as scaffolding to ship credible drafts in unfamiliar domains, build judgment through tight feedback loops, and know when to bring in expert depth.
How to Troubleshoot Without AI: A Protocol for the Last 10%
When AI guidance stalls, this gritty protocol brings you back to first principles—isolating failures, reading logs, and triangulating sources to close the last 10%. If you’ve wondered how to troubleshoot without AI at the edge, here’s a system to build resilient closure.
How to differentiate AI products: focus, validate, and engineer distribution
Access to frontier AI is table stakes. Learn how to differentiate AI products by picking high‑leverage problems, validating value in tight loops, and engineering distribution you control.
Career Growth
How to Target Job Applications: Be the Obvious Fit
Depth beats breadth in tech job searches: focus on a few high‑probability roles, research deeply, and build warm relationships to boost per‑application conversion.
Shipping Trumps Credentials: How to Get Hired Without Experience
Stop waiting for permission. Learn how to get hired without experience by shipping tiny real projects with clear READMEs and live demos that reduce hiring risk.
How to Gain Career Freedom Without Quitting Your Job
Learn how to gain career freedom without quitting by aligning your values, operating on outcomes instead of hours, and setting boundaries that protect deep work. This approach restores autonomy, energy, and impact for engineers and AI builders.
Content & Personal Brand
Keep AI voice unique: treat voice as a distribution, not a template
Keep AI voice unique by treating it as a distribution, not a template. Guide AI with style principles and a quick human pass so outputs stay authentic and fresh.
Avoid Generic AI Writing Without Losing Your Voice
AI should accelerate your writing, not flatten your voice. Learn how to avoid generic AI writing by cutting filler, adding specifics, and shipping work that sounds like you.
Build Trust with Technical Content: Proof-Tested, Personal, and Specific
Best practices alone fall flat. This post shows how to build trust with technical content by sharing proof-tested, personal, specific experiences that earn loyalty.
Education & Learning
Engineering Strategy
Balance AI and Manual Research: Orchestrating Reliable Debugging
Learn how to balance AI and manual research with an orchestration loop that mixes speed, depth, and judgment to solve ambiguous, niche engineering problems.
Accelerate Software Development with AI Without Breaking Quality
Compress feedback loops and ship small, context-rich changes so AI compounds prior decisions. Elevate architecture, testing, and review to move fast without losing production quality.
Align AI productivity with outcomes to build trusted value
AI’s 10x leverage only compounds when you align AI productivity with outcomes. This piece shows how to redesign metrics, incentives, and workflows to build durable trust.
Leadership
Design Respectful Engineering Interview Process: Intent, Momentum, and Trust
Interview loops shouldn’t be about speed or round counts. Design respectful engineering interview process centered on intent, clarity, and trust for stronger decisions and right-sized steps.
When to Intervene Versus Delegate: Essential Filter for Leaders
Use a simple involvement filter to decide when to intervene versus delegate so your presence restores momentum, protects high-stakes work, and scales trust.
How Engineering Managers Create Leverage: The Real Multiplier
Explore how engineering managers create leverage by translating strategy, coaching judgment, making outcomes visible, buffering noise, and unblocking systems to multiply impact.
Mindset & Well-Being
Productivity
Build Momentum When Unmotivated: Small Wins, Light Accountability
When deep focus slips, build momentum when unmotivated with low-friction tasks and lightweight accountability to preserve your execution habit.
Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking and Protect Your Momentum
Progress compounds through consistency, not perfect streaks. Overcome all-or-nothing thinking by resetting after a miss—shrink the next step, schedule tomorrow, and keep momentum.
Build Consistent Productivity Habits Anywhere
Productivity isn’t about where you sit—it’s about the habits and systems you carry. Build consistent productivity habits that make focus portable and collaboration clear.
Professional Development
How to Thank Mentors: Make Weekly Specific Appreciation a Habit
Learn how to thank mentors with brief, concrete notes that revive dormant connections, keep shared wisdom active, and strengthen trust across your engineering network.
Work-Life Balance