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April 9, 2026
The problems nobody talks about when presenting onlineThere is a particular kind of friction that accumulates slowly in remote work, the kind that never quite makes it onto a retrospective board because it feels too small to name. You don't lose a deal over it. No incident report gets filed. But it shows up, meeting after meeting, in the tiny hesitations, the apologetic messages, the "can you just share your screen instead?" workarounds that everyone accepts as normal without ever questioning whether they should. For us, it showed up in three spec…
April 7, 2026
The only skill that actually matters (and nobody interviews for it)Think about the last person at work who genuinely impressed you. Not the one who knew the most, or had the longest resume, but the one you'd go to when something was broken and no one knew how to fix it. The one who could walk into an awkward meeting and somehow make everyone relax. The one who, when you described a vague problem, came back with three approaches you hadn't considered. What was it, exactly, that made them that way? We reach for words like _smart_, or _experienced_, or _a good co…
February 2, 2026
The future doesn't existWe speak about the future as if it were a place we are slowly approaching, a destination somewhere ahead of us on the timeline, waiting patiently while we prepare ourselves to finally arrive. We organize our lives around it, postpone happiness for it, justify suffering in its name, and accept present dissatisfaction as a reasonable price to pay for something that is supposedly coming later. And yet, when examined closely, the future begins to look less like a real thing and more like a very conv…
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