The fog after a layoff shows up before the grief does. You can’t read, you can’t decide, and you can’t find the words to tell the people you love. It isn’t weakness, and it lifts. These are small rules for the first 30 days, and the signs that it’s time to talk to someone.
My new book is out. It holds the 100 AI interview questions data interviewers ask now, with answers short enough to say out loud. Six of those questions are in this post, free.
The job that was never there is the hardest loss to explain. It came in messages from people who looked back and realised they had never quite had one.
Who is going to do my job now? An email asked me that at 4:41 this morning, from a man who gave sixteen years to one company and handed his laptop back.
Tech conferences are worth every hour I have given them, but the sessions are not. So here is the program for a conference that does not exist.