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2 Sep, 2026
The Job Posting That Wanted an AI, Not an Engineer
Part of The Ego Tax series — stories on how overconfidence and inexperience quietly bankrupt software projects.A few years ago, the credential everyone suddenly needed was a Scrum certification. Companies that had never run a single sprint were requiring it in job postings for roles that had nothing to do with software delivery. Consultants built entire practices ...
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Why Smart Teams Waste Millions: The Ego Tax Nobody Budgets For
Part of The Ego Tax series — stories on how overconfidence and inexperience quietly bankrupt software projects.Seventy percent of software projects fail or fall short. In the United States alone, the cost of software failure — projects abandoned, systems that don't work, money spent building the wrong thing — runs past two trillion dollars a year. That's not a ...
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What Should Students Actually Study to Get a Job?
A student reached out recently with a question I hear constantly: what should she study to make sure she's employable when she graduates? She'd heard cybersecurity was booming. A friend said cloud computing was the safer bet. Someone else swore by data science.I gave her the same advice I'd give anyone asking this question, whether they're in school or already working: stop ...
31 Aug, 2026 Read more -
The Spam King Who Disappeared
In the early years of the commercial Internet, spam was more than an annoyance. It became an industry.Millions of unsolicited emails poured into inboxes advertising everything imaginable. Internet providers built increasingly sophisticated filters to stop them, lawmakers tried to regulate them, and companies began taking the people ...
13 Nov, 2020 Read more
