Tag: #identity
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 10 posts
Separating the Job From the Self — What Happens When Identity Is Attached to a Role
A reorg or a team being dissolved is, in origin, a work event. But when identity is staked on the role, the same event arrives as an event about your existence. This post breaks that structure into three symptoms and sho
2026-08-15 · 6 min read #career#identity#burnout#resilience#self-worthKeep One Thing You Are Bad At — The Practice of Living as an Amateur
Mention a hobby today and the talk about monetizing it follows within a minute. But the word amateur never meant someone short on skill. It came from the Latin amator, a person who does it out of love. Through the recove
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #mindset#healing#hobby#recovery#identityThe Rise of the Agentic Web — auth.md and the Era of AI Signing Up On Your Behalf
AI agents signing up for and acting on services on behalf of users — the agentic web — is rapidly becoming reality. We examine the idea of domain-root standards like the auth.md proposal that emerged in the WorkOS contex
2026-06-25 · 21 min read #ai#agent#authentication#oauth#web-standardsScience Fiction Short Story: The Shop That Buys Memories
A short science-fiction story set in a small shop where memories are bought and sold, exploring memory, identity, and the meaning of loss through one customer and the choice he must make.
2026-06-21 · 20 min read #fiction#science-fiction#short-story#memory#identityConsumerism and Identity — Am I What I Buy?
Are the things we buy mere tools, or a language that tells the world who we are? From the workings of consumer society to brands and the self, positional goods, the psychology of advertising, and the movements of minimal
2026-06-21 · 67 min read #culture#consumerism#identity#sociology#minimalismConsistency — The Sturdiest Habit That Builds Trust
Consistency is the foundation of trust and reputation. This essay covers how matching words to actions and keeping small promises becomes reputation, how to build consistency through identity-based habits, and how to gua
2026-06-19 · 30 min read #consistency#trust#habit#identity#reputationA 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#expertiseThe Age of Mandatory Age Verification — Is Privacy-Preserving Identity Possible?
Examining the push toward mandatory age verification on social media and the privacy concerns it raises, this post walks through privacy-preserving authentication technologies from a developer perspective: zero-knowledge
2026-06-12 · 14 min read #privacy#identity#zero-knowledge#verifiable-credentials#securityZero Trust Architecture Complete Guide 2025: Never Trust Always Verify, BeyondCorp, SASE
Everything about Zero Trust! Never Trust Always Verify principles, Google BeyondCorp, microsegmentation, ZTNA, SASE, identity-centric security, least privilege, continuous verification, implementation roadmap, tools (Zsc
2026-04-14 · 24 min read #zero-trust#security#identity#beyondcorp#saseOAuth 2.0 & Authentication Complete Guide 2025: JWT, Sessions, SSO, OIDC, Passkey
Everything about web authentication! OAuth 2.0 flows (Authorization Code/PKCE/Client Credentials), JWT (structure/verification/Refresh Token), Session vs Token, SSO (SAML/OIDC), Passkey (WebAuthn/FIDO2), Social Login, Se
2026-03-25 · 22 min read #oauth2#authentication#jwt#session#sso