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The Invisible PR You're Building Right Now

The Email That Changed Everything I received a meeting invite labeled “Check In” and it was to discuss news about the restructure. In a few months, my role would be gone. I was still processing it, sitting with that particular brand of numbness that comes when your career gets upended. In the following weeks, my inbox started filling up. LinkedIn messages. Texts. Emails from people I’d worked with years ago.

Monday, December 8, 2025 Read
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Financial Independence: Your Shield Against Job Loss Fear

The Fear That Follows You Home One evening, after pushing another commit past midnight, I couldn’t bring myself to sit up. Not because I was tired—though I was. Not because the commit had issues—it went smoothly, and tested all fine. I couldn’t get up because I’d spent the entire day with a knot in my stomach, wondering if our team would survive the next round of “organizational restructuring.” Here’s what made it worse: I had no idea if my fear was rational. Were we really at risk? Or was I just catastrophizing? The uncertainty was eating me alive.

Sunday, November 2, 2025 Read
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Discover our best selves

Introduction Here’s what nobody tells you about: your biggest blind spot isn’t your technical weaknesses—it’s your strengths. That sounds weird doesn’t it. Most of us can recite our shortcomings on command, yet we struggle to articulate what we’re genuinely good at. This isn’t just modesty. It’s a fundamental quirk of human psychology that keeps us from reaching our full potential. The Reflected Best Self Portrait exercise, developed by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, flips this script entirely. Instead of the usual deficit-focused approach (“here’s what you need to fix”), it asks a radical question: what if we built our careers around who we are when we’re at our absolute best? For data professionals navigating an industry that’s constantly evolving—where yesterday’s cutting-edge tool becomes today’s legacy system—this approach isn’t just refreshing. It’s essential.

Saturday, November 1, 2025 Read