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.
Everyone expected AI to come from the big companies. The research did come from their labs, but the products did not, and the reason is not talent or budget.
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.
Jobs are disappearing quietly, and a personal essay on the private arithmetic of fear, and why changing work is never the same as diminished worth.