Welcome to the first edition of Publishing Confidential in 2026. My main goal this year is to be more intentional about my work, which means asking myself, “How does this serve me?” much more often. My company just turned three years old, so it’s a good time to reassess where I am and what I want to…

Competitive strategy It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t, neither can anyone else. From the Magazine (April 2008) · Long read Summary. Can you summarize your company’s strategy in 35…

Hey, thanks for subscribing to SatPost. Today, we are talking about how Jerry Seinfeld and Ichiro Suzuki have dedicated their lives to mastering a skill (comedy, baseball). Also this week: Netflix’s Password Crackdown Worked Red Lobster’s Bankruptcy …and them fire memes (including Chipotle) Jerry…

Back in 2021, the tech industry was booming. Fueled by generous government subsidies and the pandemic economy, tech companies went on a hiring spree, promising unlimited time off and upward growth opportunities at open offices where kombucha and cold brew flowed from taps. Flash forward to now, and…

Table of Contents The feeling If you’re like me, you’ve had this strange, uneasy feeling about the job market for a few years now. It’s like a splinter in the brain. We know something is deeply broken about the whole system, but it’s impossible to grasp or articulate. I’m writing this because I…

Illustration by Monty Vaz Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2021, Zia graduated from the University of Michigan–Dearborn with a degree in software engineering. With an internship under his belt, he had no…

Two businesspeople standing face to face getty Did you know that time spent on workplace conflict has doubled since 2008? That’s according to the most recent Conflict at Work research released by The Myers-Briggs Company. As it turns out, poor communication is the number one cause of conflict.…

Published on 2025-06-20, 5674 words, 21 minutes to read Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise. A picture of two patches of wild grass bifurcated by a retaining pond. - Photo by Xe Iaso, Canon EOS R6…

The job of the future might already be past its prime. For years, young people seeking a lucrative career were urged to go all in on computer science. From 2005 to 2023, the number of comp-sci majors in the United States quadrupled. All of which makes the latest batch of numbers so startling. This…

AI is breaking entry-level jobs that Gen Z workers need to launch careers 6/5/2025 As millions of students prepare to graduate this spring, their chances of landing that crucial first job—the one that kickstarts a career—appear increasingly uncertain. Beyond a cooling economy burdened by…

Who's not being laid off? That's my question. I'm thinking about all these layoffs and trying to figure out if there's anything we can learn about the future of tech by looking at who's getting laid off and who's not. Here's what I'm wondering: Is it mostly people with degrees they're getting rid…

HomePostsI Don't Network. I Write. A Good Essay Outlasts A Thousand Handshakes. JA Westenberg Sep 27, 2025 I don't network. I write. I’ve always been suspicious of the industry dogma that tells us success in tech is mostly about who you know. The idea is repeated so often it starts to feel more like…

We all die eventually. This isn't morbid; it's clarifying. When you accept the finite nature of our time, you're forced to ask harder questions about how you spend it. And since most of our waking hours are spent at work, the question is simply: Is this work worth my life? Dan Pink's book Drive…

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five…

Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream. Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade. Just 33% agree a four-year college…

We’ve long known about the Producer-Manager Dilemma (PMD)– the challenge of leading other professionals while continuing to generate and execute work. But the problem is truly exacerbated for experienced rainmakers because the burden of both of those roles is higher, including significant leadership…

A new study shows Millennials are the first [+][-] generation that AI will replace as it puts 38% of Millennial jobs at risk. getty As AI automates more jobs, experts predict that it will replace full-time careers in 2025. Susan Lindeque, CEO of Avestix Group, predicts AI could soon upset the entire…

Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon (ZIRP), smaller versions…

I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine…

Moving from an Individual Contributor (IC) to a manager is a significant career step. This is especially true in the ever-evolving tech industry. This change brings new challenges and opportunities to learn. Reflecting on my first couple of years as an Engineering Manager, I realized that the…

My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get to the next order of magnitude scale. If they’re making $1M ARR today, they think about how to get to $10M ARR. If they have 1,000 users today, they think about how to get to 10,000…

Hybrid work December 19, 2023 Synchro Shoot/Stocksy Summary. Leer en españolLer em português Remote work has exploded since the pandemic struck, and employees like it. In speaking to hundreds of managers about this development, one concern crops up again and again: The shift to remote work is highly…

Layoffs October 9, 2024 Peter Cade/Getty Images Summary. Leer en españolLer em português In today’s climate, large-scale layoffs are in the news often. The industry being hit the hardest right now is tech, with more than 100,000 roles being cut in 2024 so far, including from large companies like…

Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingMarch 8, 2024 3 Min Read Source: Roman Samborskyi via Alamy Stock Photo Cybersecurity professionals are finding it more attractive to take their talents to the Dark Web and earn money working on the offensive side of cybercrime. This puts enterprises in a…

Maybe you can put it down as another post-Covid trend, such as working from home, but it’s clear something is going on. People working for a range of employers are increasingly hoping to take sabbaticals or extended time off, with many keen to improve their work-life balance by exploring the world…

Nathan Eddy, Contributing WriterSeptember 6, 2024 5 Min Read Source: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH via Alamy Stock Photo With more than half a million cybersecurity jobs unfilled nationwide in the US, private enterprise and the federal government alike are focusing efforts to help fill the gap…

After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on the side, next to…

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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Showcase is a potentially vulnerable app present in Pixel firmware, designed for Verizon in-store demos. The app is not enabled by default, severely limiting the potential for it to be exploited. Out of an abundance of caution, Google will still update Pixel…

When President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign for reelection, he took pains to describe his choice as one meant to serve the greater good. “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country,” he wrote in a statement. His decision seemed calculated to…

I always considered myself not especially smart. I mean, I think I have an "eye" or a "nose" for detecting good and bad things in advance, but I developed so many different things during my career that I am not an expert in anything in particular. In Spanish, we have a saying, "Maestro Liendre: De…

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I’ve been doing a lot of swimming over the past few weeks and I’ve regularly been hitting some new personal milestones over the past year. Each milestone brings with in a huge high, an endorphin rush, a personal satisfaction and, honestly, I walk around for the day feeling like a fucking god (I’m…

Bookending Mandy Brown — 08 May 2024 Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of them. Stash your tabs somewhere if you must, but close them all down. The only exception that may be…

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