A former diplomat writes about navigating LinkedIn as a professional platform after career upheaval in international development, and shares personal essays about life abroad. The newsletter mixes practical notes on how LinkedIn's ranking works with warm, anecdotal stories from postings in Central Asia and beyond.
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A practitioner-written newsletter from an AI solutions architect covering how AI teams move from demos to production systems, including forward deployed engineering, agent kill switches, and crash recovery with durable execution. Each issue works through a concrete fictional bank scenario and draws on real incidents and design trade-offs.
Essays by a veteran software engineer on AI, shipping software, and engineering culture, told through nostalgic stories and composite anecdotes. Readers get opinionated, humorous takes on how LLM systems actually work and how engineers can adapt.
First-person notes on self-petitioning for EB-1A, O-1 and EB-2 NIW visas, drawing on the author's own EB-1A filing and on building the Vislify application assistant. Issues cover practical evidence handling, such as archiving sources and framing a career record.
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