Author: Mr. E
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The Next Baseline: Why Every Professional Needs Data and Development Skills
When I was looking at the job market in tech hubs, I noticed a pattern: companies weren’t just hiring domain experts but were also demanding data literacy and coding skills across almost every role. Some, like X are hiring large…
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A Letter to My Daughter – Dream Big
Every single successful person has followed the same pattern: “dream big from childhood.” But the triggers that sparked this dream were different. Some watched the first landing on the Moon. Some grew up hungry but saw billionaires on TV. For…
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The Paradox of Big Tech: Innovation vs. Bureaucracy
Bureaucratic Trap is a known dilemma in big tech when they hire the best and brightest talent to drive massive innovation and revolutionary change. Examples are legacy tech companies recruiting overqualified or talented candidates in the hope they can transform…
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The Risk Assessment of AI
Listening to the podcast The Diary of a CEO, I came across the interview with Geoffrey Hinton (link to video) often called the “Godfather of AI” for his 50 years of work pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Hinton, a…
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Humor is a Bridge in Parenting
My daughter is entering her teenage years, and sometimes it feels hard to connect with her. She gets angry more often, and one phrase I hear a lot is: “What’s wrong with you?” She’ll throw it out during a simple…
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Public Perception and Memory Bias
Some people will do almost anything to achieve fame and wealth. But once they reach the top, they reinvent themselves as champions of ethics, philanthropy, or humanitarian values. Surprisingly, this shift often works. The public embraces their new image, admiring…
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When Passion Finds You
“Dad, I think coding is my thing“ my 9-year-old said after hours of JavaScript course. She completed a level 28 task faster than me with fewer lines of code. I felt threatened and proud at the same time. When I…
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AI Isn’t Killing Jobs, It’s Stress-Testing Workforces
AI layoffs are not mass replacement. They’re mass restructuring. The strongest stay, the weakest go, just like COVID. I hear it everywhere from university, government agencies, and tech giants: “Huge rounds of layoffs are coming because of AI.” But what…
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Being Amazonian: Numbers Beat Stories
Not Being “Amazonian” Makes You Not Valued by Amazon hiring managers during interviews. Being Amazonian (a person who works for Amazon) means many peculiar things but one thing stands out: be specific and give numbers! If a hiring manager in…
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Mary’s Room Experiment and the Nature of Experience
Today I was thinking about the famous Mary’s Room thought experiment after listening to Alex O’Connor’s podcast, where he challenged a physicist to claim that philosophy is a real science. To illustrate his point, he referred to Mary’s Room thought…
