Deep dives into tech industry trends, market shifts, and the forces reshaping how software gets built and sold.
The tech industry spent 2020–2022 hiring like there was no tomorrow, discovered there was in fact a tomorrow with a budget, and fired 622,000 people. A five-act tragedy about layoffs, ghost jobs, salary declines, and what it means for your career. With data, 22 sources, and appropriate sarcasm.
Four million developers short. Response: hire 50% fewer juniors. This is the tech industry's self-inflicted famine—a trillion-dollar sector that burned its talent pipeline and now stands confused in the ashes, asking where all the seniors went.
There's no villain twirling a mustache in the corner. Just good people, doing reasonable things, wondering why the magic seems to have wandered off. A story about orchards, ducks, and the patterns that quietly shape our teams.
A gaming empire built on grandma's slot machine addiction decided to stop making games, spent billions buying creativity they'd later destroy, and fired thousands while executives kept their ocean-view palaces. This is corporate self-destruction so spectacular it deserves its own casino.
New leadership arrives. They restructure teams, rebrand the methodology, and launch a transformation initiative. Six months later, the same bugs ship, the same deadlines slip, and the same post-mortem gets written in a slightly different font. A satirical look at why the cycle never breaks.
The conference talk says "shift left." The Sprint says "there's no time." The PM says "just test it faster." What happens when textbook QA methodology meets the reality of a development team that shipped yesterday's code this morning?
