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Your Postmortems Are Compliance Theater. Here’s How to Make Them Actually Useful.
A postmortem is supposed to be your team’s institutional memory.
The incident happens, everyone scrambles, things get fixed, and then you write it down so the next person doesn’t have to learn the same lesson the hard way.
A good postmort...
Your “Messy” Career Path Is Your Superpower
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There is this idea that a career in tech has to look a certain way: study computer science, or maybe data science, get your first role, and build from there in a straight, upward line. It’s clean, logical, and opti...
Most Program Managers Use AI Like a Search Box. The Job Is Knowing Which Tasks to Hand It.
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It’s 4pm on a Friday.
You are staring at a Jira export, three Slack threads, your standup notes from Tuesday that already feel ancient, and a risk log that is somehow both too long and too vague.
The status update for t...
How WhatsApp Built Cloud AI Without Breaking Its Biggest Promise?
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There’s always another AI incident coming.
My favorite part of the job has become putting real thought into the primitives and architectures that prevent the...
Dial-Up to AI: Why the Women Who Grew Up With the Internet Are the Ones to Watch Right Now
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There is a story being told about women and AI, and it goes something like this:
Women are behind. Women are hesitant. Women need to be encouraged, onboarded, reassured. Women are the cautious adopters who will come...
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This is the place women in tech come to be seen, to be heard, to be championed, and to say the things they can't say anywhere else. We'd love for you to join us for three stories a week from 70+ women who've lived it.
I’m a product manager from Chișinău. One publication is about perfume. The other is about work. Both are mostly about people making questionable decisions and then finding excellent language to explain them.
The gurus have a funnel for everything except the truth. Essays for people who are tired of being optimized, automated, disrupted, conditioned, and otherwise improved.
\ud83e\udd89 Engineering, AI and Inner systems
Christine is the creator of technical accounting, an accounting method that surfaces engineering health. It turns massive initiatives - like breaking up monoliths or cleaning up tech debt - into reports anyone can understand.
thinking about everything | ai and tech and society and culture from the outside in.
ex-Apple. Growth for apps & games ✨
For expats and multicultural professionals building a life abroad — intentionally. Intercultural coach & PhD. 20+ years across borders \ud83c\udf0d
Founder of M(AI)VENS, helping non-techy women build their AI confidence and their circle. \ud83d\udc9c Free weekly newsletter, plus a paid community with member events, curated networking, and a fun book & movie club. \ud83d\udcda
The human side of data and AI adoption. A practitioner's perspective for analysts navigating what comes next. LinkedIn Learning instructor. Speaker. Data Analyst turned Analytics Engineer.
I helped build the tech world for 20 years. Now I write about staying human inside it: burnout and recovery, boundaries with our devices, raising a teen, and the small joys that make a life. For anyone wondering if the life they built still fits.
AI PM turning everyone into critical AI thinkers & builders. A community developing critical AI literacy through practice. Use AI to strengthen the branch you’re sitting on, not cut it off.
Therapist to high profile individuals and couples in Silicon Valley. Subscribe for research-backed tools to lead, love, and live with more honesty, clarity and resilience. PhD in sexuality. Women's health advisor. Meditator.
Software engineer, mom, clinical mental health counseling grad student, occasional boxer. I write about burnout, work dysfunction, and the slow, humbling work of figuring out who you are. My life in tech keeps providing excellent research material.
I bring forty years of building resilient systems - first in technology, now in therapy. Whether debugging code or untangling thought patterns, I apply the same approach: listen carefully, identify root causes, and build sustainable solutions
Senior AI PM at the crossroads of Enterprise Enablement, Data, AI and Product Strategy. Real lessons from shipping AI in large orgs—for PMs and Data Leaders who want impact over hype.
Essays on the burnout you didn't cause and the workplace relationships that did. Written by a former IT manager turned burnout coach on a mission to build work cultures where success doesn't require burnout.
Founder of Negotiate Like a Woman. Fix the women' got us nowhere. 'Fix the system' is taking forever. Negotiation strategist for women leaders, on value, power and authority.
If your company bought an AI tool and usage never stuck, Ground Truth shows where adoption actually breaks and what to fix. Enterprise AI from the TPM seat, tested on real pipelines, not demos.\ud83d\udc3e ✨
I'm a data analyst who spends her days deep in Excel and AI tools. Every week, one article. Practical, not theoretical. For women in data and finance who are already great at their jobs and just want to stay that way — and then some.
Woman in tech figuring out AI by doing it - and watching how everyone else does it too. I write about what I learn, what I notice, and what nobody's saying out loud. Weekly from Copenhagen.
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