Why I Built a Job Tracker to Solve My Own Search Burnout (And How It Can Help Yours)
We’ve all been there. You’re deep into a job search, and your desktop looks like a crime scene. Thirty open browser tabs, a desktop cluttered with five different versions of your resume (Resume_Final_v2_actual.pdf), and a sprawling spreadsheet that you haven’t updated in four days because just looking at it gives...
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The Job You Applied For Doesn’t Exist
Ghost jobs are quietly wasting millions of hours of job seekers’ time. Here’s what’s happening — and how to protect yourself.You spent two hours on that application.You tailored the cover letter. You restructured your resume to match the keywords. You researched the company, looked up the hiring manager on LinkedIn, and submitted...
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The Barlow Code: Why Your Software Shouldn’t Know You Exist
A new privacy philosophy — named after a cyberpunk poet-cowboy — is quietly reshaping what it means to build software people can actually trust.There’s a sentence buried on the Jobflo landing page that stops most people cold the first time they read it:“We don’t even know you exist.”In an era when every app you open is harvesting...
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Why I’m trying to replace the job search spreadsheet
If you’ve ever found yourself hunting for a new role, you know the drill. You start with good intentions, and within a week, you’re staring at a massive, clinical spreadsheet. A wall of text, URLs, application dates, and a color-coding system you forgot the meaning of three days ago.Spreadsheets are great...
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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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