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• What Skills and Qualities Should I Look for in Forward Deployed Engineer Candidates?

  Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer is about much more than finding someone with strong coding skills. The best candidates combine technical expertise with communication, problem-solving, and the ability to work directly with clients. They understand business needs, adapt to different environments, and help turn technical solutions into real-world results.

• O dote não brilha sozinho

  O dote não brilha sozinho. Apaga, como lâmpada esquecida. E acende de novo, só quando alguém se lembra de apertar o interruptor — ou quando quem a possui decide, enfim, que a escuridão da sala já dura tempo demais.

• O teste da água

  E o homem? O homem não é fechado em si. Ele é jogado na água do tempo todos os dias. A manhã fria o dissolve um pouco...

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  Li, em algum prefácio, que a crônica nasce quando a gente não tem o que escrever...

• Do all social network WhatsApp, Telegram, Ownmates support end-to-end encryption?

  The most social media companies say their products are encrypted, Is it true or false?

• How to Install CentOS 9 Minimal – Powerful Yet Lightweight

  This guide will walk you through installing the minimal configuration of CentOS Stream 9. The minimal version is a lightweight, command-line interface (CLI) setup that installs only the essential features, allowing you to build your server with exactly the software you need. To get started, search for the official CentOS download page. Locate and download the x86_64 ISO file, which is required to create your virtual machine. While the file downloads, ensure you have VMware Workstation…

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• Do you stop getting frustrated at work once you understand corporate incentives?

  There is a status deck somewhere in your company that nobody reads. It gets updated every few weeks, shown in a meeting, and forgotten. Your manager knows this too. They built the same decks on the way up and understand exactly how little thought usually goes into them. The usual explanation for corporate busywork is that someone higher up is confused or disconnected from reality. That's comforting, but mostly wrong. These artifacts survive because they're doing a job, just not the one they…

• Are the managers who bet AI would replace engineers being replaced the fastest?

  Last year my LinkedIn feed had a genre. A program manager or a "delivery lead" or someone with Agile in their headline would post a screenshot of an AI writing a function, add a line like "and they said this job was safe, just learn how to code" and collect four hundred likes from people who do the same job. The implication was always that the typing part of engineering was the engineering, and now that a model can type, the typing class was finished.

• Do you have to miss your goals to get promoted?

  Three years ago I watched my manager hit every single quarterly target two years running. Clean dashboards. Green everywhere, all the time. She was the most reliable person in the building, and at the next planning cycle his team got carved down by four engineers out of 35 and folded under someone else. Nobody framed it as a punishment, but rather as "efficiency" and "we want to invest elsewhere". The lesson landed anyway, and not just on me. Sadly, never on my manager.

• Why does Silicon Valley talk about death like it's a software bug?

  One of the clearest signs that modern secular elite culture is uneasy about death is how Silicon Valley talks about it. The human body is treated like legacy hardware waiting for an upgrade. In place of acceptance, you get optimization: longevity startups, cryonics, extreme biohacking, and constant speculation about whether enough computation and biotech might eventually defeat death itself. Tech billionaires talk with pride about potentially transferring their consciousness to a computer, as…

• Are the humanities more needed than ever in the AI age?

  No parents encourage their kids to study Humanities. By default, recommended options are STEM related. Engineering (Computer Science), Finance, Medicine...The argument against the humanities in the AI age makes it even less compelling to dedicate 4 years to study a Humanities degree. Language models can write passably, summarize quickly, and produce research-shaped text on demand. So the old humanities skills are supposed to matter less. Learn to code, learn to prompt, and stop pretending close.

• Are companies now incentivized to sell subscriptions instead of products?

  The HP printer example is still the nuts to me. To many users, it stops working, not because anything inside it broke, but because the ink subscription lapsed and the manufacturer's software disabled cartridges you already owned . The printer is physically there and it just stops working

• Are Silicon Valley tech bros really conservative, or just tagging along for lower taxes?

  One of the biggest mistakes modern conservatism made was assuming that because Silicon Valley liked markets, it must also share conservative values. It didn't. Tech culture was never traditionally conservative. It was hyper-individualist, anti-tradition, impatient with limits, suspicious of religion, and obsessed with optimization over continuity. Conservatives saw money and entrepreneurial energy and ignored the rest. Now the contradiction is impossible to miss.

• Is a high salary ever really enough?

  Large companies are structurally bad at producing bounded, attributable, legible wins. Part of the salary is payment for living without them.

• Is it execution, not innovation, that actually makes companies succeed?

  One thing that starts looking fake after enough years in tech is the obsession with “disruption” as the explanation for every successful company. The winning company simply executed better than everyone else in a market that already existed. Facebook was not some impossible conceptual breakthrough. Social networking already existed. MySpace existed. Friendster existed and the majority of features Facebook had were present in these 2. People already understood the product category immediately.…

• Do most jobs converge into sales once you're senior enough?

  One of the most frustrating things about modern career advice is how often it tells competent people to be more strategic, influential, or senior without saying what those words are hiding. A lot of the time, what they are hiding is sales.

• Did Chromebooks make Gen Z hopeless with actual computers?

  The current panic says AI is making people worse at thinking. Maybe. But if you want to know why so many younger workers are fluent with apps and so shaky with computers, AI is not the first place to look. The deeper break happened earlier, when schools and institutions decided that students should interact with managed appliances instead of actual machines, like Millennials did.