Throughout human history, there has always been a place where the quiet ones could excel. A domain where deep thinking mattered more than small talk, where careful analysis outweighed charisma, and where the quality of your work spoke louder than the volume of your voice. That place has been engineering. From the mathematicians of ancient…
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The Corporate Culture Charade Part 2: How AI Is Killing What Little Culture We Had Left
While executives blame remote work for destroying company culture, they’re missing the real culprit: AI-generated content is creating a closed loop of meaningless communication where everyone is reading summaries of summaries, and nobody is thinking anymore. I need to start with a confession: I’ve used AI to write emails. I’ve used it to summarize meeting…
Company Culture
The article critiques the modern obsession with corporate culture, arguing it is often a superficial construct designed to appease executives rather than genuinely engage employees. The author emphasizes that true culture emerges organically from shared experiences, while corporate culture is manufactured, focusing on management control instead of addressing real employee needs such as fair compensation and meaningful work.
A Love Letter to CoffeeScript and HAML: When Rails Frontend Development Was Pure Joy
The author reflects on the nostalgia of older coding practices, specifically with Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript, and HAML. They appreciate the simplicity, conciseness, and readability of these technologies compared to modern alternatives like TypeScript. While acknowledging TypeScript’s superiority in type safety, they express a longing for the elegant developer experience of the past.
Breaking Bad Habits Of Failure
People living today are extremely lucky. 50 years ago the internet never even existed, and cable TV was something you read about in sci-fi magazines. Now, thanks to the internet, you can find information on virtually anything you want, instantly. Something which was only a dream just 10 years ago. Yet with all this information…
Conquering Fear
What really keeps you from living your dreams? What problem is most dominant in peoples lives? The answer is: FEAR! People live every day in fear. Fear of losing their wealth, fear of losing their loved ones, fear of making the wrong decisions, fear of being themselves, fear of growing up, fear of making a…