Tag: #career
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 229 posts
The Tech Interview Playbook — Coding, System Design, and Behavioral
A tech interview tests your skill — and is a separate skill of its own. Pattern-based coding prep, a 5-step system design frame, building a STAR story bank for behavioral rounds, the staple questions per role, and an 8-w
2026-07-06 · 7 min read #career#interview#skills#preparationA Knowledge Map for the Rising Tech Roles of 2026 — What to Actually Study
AI/LLM engineer, platform/DevOps/SRE, security engineer, data engineer, frontend — a checklist-style map of what the five most in-demand roles actually require. Includes the cross-cutting skills every role shares, plus t
2026-07-06 · 7 min read #career#roadmap#skills#learningBuilding a Career That Compounds — Don't Chase Passion, Build Skill
A good career is not built by "following your passion." It is built by compounding rare and valuable skills, reputation, and relationships over time. Career capital theory, deliberate practice, leverage, and a repeatable
2026-07-03 · 13 min read #career#growth#skills#productivityHow to Become an AI Engineer in 2026 — LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, and a Career Roadmap
The complete 2026 guide to becoming an AI Engineer. From how the role differs from ML Engineer and Data Scientist to LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG design, agents, LoRA fine-tuning, vLLM serving, evals-driven developm
2026-07-02 · 26 min read #ai-engineer#career#llm#rag#ai-agentsWhat Is a Forward Deployed Engineer?
The role Palantir popularized and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have made hot again in their solutions orgs. A forward deployed engineer is embedded with the customer, blends software engineering, product,
2026-07-02 · 7 min read #career#engineering#fdeCommunication for Engineers: How to Get Technical Decisions Made
Good ideas usually fail not because they are bad but because they are delivered badly. This post covers writing design docs and RFCs, leading with the problem instead of the solution, tailoring the message to executives
2026-06-27 · 13 min read #career#communication#engineeringThe Joy of Understanding — Why Deep Understanding Still Matters in the LLM Era
Search and LLMs give fast answers, but deep understanding gives control and ownership. We cover the value of seeing beneath abstractions, the stance of not being dragged by your tools, the difference understanding makes
2026-06-25 · 24 min read #culture#learning#craftsmanship#understanding#engineeringWorking With Purpose — How the Why Changes the How
How purpose creates motivation and persistence, how to find and assign meaning in work, the alignment of values and norms, the wish to be remembered as a good person, and how to guard against purpose obsession, all woven
2026-06-19 · 23 min read #culture#purpose#meaning#motivation#self-managementPower Games Plus the Orthodox Approach — You Need Both to Go Far
Doing the work and winning on merit is powerful, but it is not enough on its own. This is my honest attempt to reconcile the orthodox approach with the reality of office politics, while keeping both grounded in real comp
2026-06-19 · 28 min read #career#office-politics#leadership#influence#workplaceLife Is a Long Game: Making Regret-Free Choices With Your Future Self
If the you of three years from now looked back at the choice you are making today, would they regret it or be grateful? Using your future self as the standard for decisions frees you from the trap of short-term focus and
2026-06-19 · 34 min read #future-self#long-game#decision-making#mindset#self-improvementThe Power of Environment and Role Models — Why Watching Others Teaches Us So Much
I used to think the saying environment shapes people was about willpower. Then a strong colleague and a high-level table tennis club taught me otherwise. Drawing on social learning theory and environment design, this ess
2026-06-19 · 36 min read #environment#role-models#social-learning#growth#careerMotivation Comes From People — Turning Desire Into Drive
More than half of any work is motivation. This is how I learned to connect healthy desire to learning and growth, why people move people, and how to design my own motivation system without becoming over-dependent on exte
2026-06-19 · 30 min read #motivation#self-determination#growth#habits#careerAsk and Sync Often — Underestimate the Boss's Memory, Don't Overestimate Their Intuition
Whether what you're doing is heading the right way is best known by the person who gave you the work. This covers the value of regular alignment, the art of asking, expectation management, and the balance of guarding aga
2026-06-19 · 23 min read #communication#sync#feedback#collaboration#cultureHonesty and Integrity — Lie About One Thing and You Cast Doubt on Ten
A record of how a single small lie cracks the dam of trust, and why honesty is the most self-interested long-term strategy there is. It also covers how to share bad news early and how to balance transparency with self-pr
2026-06-19 · 25 min read #honesty#integrity#trust#communication#cultureBe a Person of Value, Not Just a Person of Success — Einsteins Advice and Self-Marketing
A personal reflection that begins with Einsteins advice to try not to become a person of success but rather a person of value. It admits that people instinctively think of their own interests first, and it argues, with c
2026-06-19 · 34 min read #self-development#career#value-creation#self-marketing#mindsetThe Coolest Skill Is the Ability to Learn Fast
In an age where change keeps accelerating, the strongest edge is not any single technical skill but the ability to learn quickly. This essay lays out how to treat learning as a meta-skill, the concrete methods of chunkin
2026-06-19 · 24 min read #learning#meta-skill#growth#career#self-improvementWork That Pours In Rather Than Gets Planned — How to Handle Adhoc Work
How to work when interrupts arrive more often than planned tasks. Triage, funneling intake, batching and protecting focus time, the trap of urgency, managing expectations, automating and documenting recurring work, and p
2026-06-16 · 14 min read #career#productivity#workflow#focus#mindsetA Person with Their Own Color — Irreplaceable Expertise and Identity
Differentiation is not pretending to be different; it is the consistency that grows at the intersection of strength and interest. This piece covers the T-shaped professional, the accumulation of reputation, imitation ver
2026-06-16 · 18 min read #career#identity#mindset#personal-brand#expertiseEarning the Right to Speak — How to Make Your Voice Count in Meetings and Organizations
The right to speak is not granted by title; it is earned through trust and contribution. This piece covers prepared speaking, timing, the craft of dissent, drawing out quiet colleagues, and finding your voice asynchronou
2026-06-16 · 19 min read #career#communication#leadership#meetings#mindsetThe Builder Mindset — Makers Change the World
An essay on the builder mindset and the shift from consumer to producer. It covers execution over ideas, starting small and shipping, fast feedback loops, ownership, building in the age of AI, finishing what you start, a
2026-06-16 · 28 min read #builder-mindset#ownership#side-projects#career#execution