Why I Built Jobflo: The Job Search is Broken, So I Built the Solution
From managing a design organization of 75 to shipping a solo project, here is why your career data belongs on your device, not in a spreadsheet.The modern job search has become a full-time job in itself.Between “ghost jobs,” six-stage interview loops, and the sheer volume of applications required to get a...
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Product Design in 2026: Am I still a designer?
The shift from pixel-pushing to product-building in the age of AI agents.For nearly thirty years, my professional identity was tethered to a specific ritual: the handoff. I would craft the vision, obsess over the affordances, and then package a set of “blueprints” for a developer to breathe life into. I was...
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Jaron Lanier’s A.I. Reality Check: Why “There Is No A.I.” Is More Prescient Than Ever
Remember Jaron Lanier? The guy with the wild dreadlocks who basically co-invented virtual reality? The New Yorker writer, computer scientist, and Microsoft “Prime Unifying Scientist” (yes, that’s a real title) is more than just a tech pioneer; he’s often the industry’s conscience. So when he dropped a piece in April...
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When the Billion-Dollar AI Dream Became a $100,000 Paperweight
The Second AI Hype Crash: When the Billion-Dollar AI Dream Became a $100,000 PaperweightThe second AI winter was worse than the first — and it started with a single year when an entire industry vanishedYou think crypto winter was bad? Let me tell you about 1987, when a half-billion-dollar industry evaporated in twelve...
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The Original AI Hype Crash: When the Future Failed to Arrive
How overblown promises and missing tech triggered the first great disappointment in artificial intelligence — and why we should pay attentionPhoto by Museums Victoria on UnsplashHere’s what you need to know about the AI industry: It has died before. Spectacularly.And if you think today’s generative AI boom is invincible — think again. Because in the...
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America’s AI Gold Rush: A Cautionary Tale for the Rest of the World
Let me be blunt: America isn’t just trying to win the AI race — it’s trying to own the entire damn track, the starting gun, and the rulebook. And if the rest of the world isn’t paying attention, it’s about to find itself locked into a technological infrastructure that makes the old...
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The Real Cost of AI: Companies Are Firing People to Fund Their Shiny New Toys (And Getting Nothing…
The Real Cost of AI: Companies Are Firing People to Fund Their Shiny New Toys (And Getting Nothing in Return)Let me tell you what’s really happening in Silicon Valley right now, and spoiler alert: it’s not the AI revolution your favorite CEO has been breathlessly tweeting about.Companies aren’t laying off workers because...
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What on Earth Is Going On With AI Into 2026?
Look, I’ve been covering tech long enough to know when we’re in the middle of something truly wild. And let me tell you: AI in 2025 is giving me serious dot-com bubble vibes, except this time the bubble runs on enough electricity to power a small country and occasionally tells...
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The 5 Critical Tech Interventions We Need by 2026 to Avoid Digital Dystopia
As AI advances accelerate, climate pressures mount, and platform power consolidates, we’re racing toward a technological tipping point that could define the next decade of human progress — or peril.The Dystopian Timeline Is AcceleratingWe’re living through what former Google executive Mo Gawdat calls the beginning of a “15-year AI dystopia” starting in 2027....
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The Future of AI Is Small Tools, Not Robot Overlords — Here’s Why America Should Pivot Now
The Future of AI Is Small Tools, Not Robot Overlords — Here’s Why America Should Pivot NowThe dystopian AI narrative is driving us toward an unsustainable dead end. It’s time to embrace a different path: specialized intelligence that actually works.The conversation around artificial intelligence has been hijacked by Hollywood fantasies and Silicon Valley hyperbole....
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