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Shared Links (weekly) April 12, 2026
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Worth Reading – Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career
This is the message I’ve been sharing with people for years:
I waited years for someone to invest in my career. Nobody came.
https://alifeengineered.substack.com/p/nobody-is-coming-to-save-your-career
Your manager is not going to invest in your career unless it benefits the organization, and in 2026, I think we can safely say that even if it does, they’re likely
Shared Links (weekly) April 5, 2026
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Worth Reading – Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?
If you ask a group of legal professionals if they’ve seen deepfakes be an issue in court, and they all say no, is there no issue, or did they fall for the fakes?
Lawyers and judges have not yet realized that virtually any piece of evidence, the realism of which we have taken for granted,
Worth Reading – When Asking for Help Feels Unsafe
Obviously, this is true in the world of sports, where any perceived weakness can be the difference between a first-round pick contract and no contract, but it’s also true in many of the industries all of us work in. In tech, do you want to be perceived as someone who might not be able to
Worth Reading – If You Feel Behind in Your Career, Read This
The idea that you will start your career after college, work hard, and move up the career ladder is a complete fiction. That is not normal by any means. If you find yourself in your 30s or 40s switching jobs and not climbing the ladder the way you thought you would, welcome to the club.
Shared Links (weekly) March 22, 2026
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How is the mental health of workers in 2026?
I often ask that question, but I don’t often see the results of studies in my feed in the same week. This week, however, was different. It’s not all bad news, but if you’re looking for good news, you’ll be hard-pressed to find it. First: New Global Study: One in Three Workers is “Merely Surviving”…
Shared Links (weekly) March 15, 2026
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Worth Reading – WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
It’s all stored in the browser, which carries some risk of computer crashes, but they claim to have backup and transfer mechanisms. It could provide a playground or personal knowledge base, complete with some AI, without worrying about it being stored in the cloud, because you can’t share it. It can be a place to