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Companies like TikTok know that social media ROI doesn't work unless the sentiment turns negative. That's viral in its worst form, not a value proposition.
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I know who to blame for the dumpster fire that is technology right now. And I can see him coming before he even sits down.
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Ageism should never be accepted, but technology workers allowed management to build it into their career path in return for generally being left alone.
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Bad actors are flooding the hiring system with a sizable volume of fake job postings, resulting in a total lack of trust on both sides of the technology recruiting table.
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A lot of the hype around Generative AI is built on a foundation of being great at doing things that humans are already doing poorly.
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The creator economy has grown massively over the last few years, but here are several questions that need answers if the economy is going to survive.
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It's not that tech employees don't want to do their increasingly difficult and thankless jobs anymore, it's that the tech companies have made it so they can't.
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I'll give you five reasons why work sucks, and I'll shed some light on the ends of those tunnels. Then I'll give you one reason that no one is talking about.
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Until tech companies aggressively and dramatically change the way they hire tech talent, the foundation of their workforce will always be at risk.
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For tech employees, the last five years have felt like perpetual existential dread, due to complex productivity problems in the industry.
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The tech industry must stop treating tech employees like a commodity. Because when they do that, they're creating an expensive mess down the road.
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The threat that AI presents to software developers is not new. Cheap, flawed, technical-debt-inducing code has been a threat to real coders for decades.
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I'm going to end the return to office and remote work productivity arguments forever, with a proposal that all management folks wear formal business attire.
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As venture capital becomes tighter and risk appetite dwindles, the shift from startup strategy to small business strategy has become necessary.
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At some point, certain venture capital investment became less about innovation, talent, and drive, and more about trend chasing and secret handshakes.
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Here are the best ideas my contemporaries and I have for surviving as a business without gutting the workforce.
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Technology in 2024 is, in a word, boring. But if we keep blaming the easy target, and only the easy target, we'll never get to the root of the problem.
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