How to Get Hired: Be the Safe Bet
Hiring managers aren't hunting for the most impressive candidate — they're trying not to make an expensive mistake. Getting hired gets a lot easier once you start answering that fear directly.

Hiring managers aren't hunting for the most impressive candidate — they're trying not to make an expensive mistake. Getting hired gets a lot easier once you start answering that fear directly.

Finishing a course and being able to build something are two different skills. Most courses only train the first one.

Most teams treat technical debt as something to feel guilty about instead of something to manage. That framing is why it never gets paid down.

The same technical point lands completely differently depending on how it's delivered. Most engineers never train for that, and it costs them.

Technical skill gets you hired. Communication, judgment, and how you work with others decide how far you go after that.

You spent years grinding LeetCode. ChatGPT spent three seconds. Here's a mostly-serious, mostly-funny look at why job hunting in the post-AI era feels like showing up to a gunfight with a butter knife.