Features writer
Writes long-form features on AI, work and the quieter side of building a career. Interested in what technology does to ordinary jobs.
The opening question of almost every interview has a structure you can memorise. A simple formula, two full example answers, and the mistakes that sink people.
Waking at 3am with your heart hammering is its own kind of misery, and most advice assumes you are calm and awake. What to do in the first five minutes.
The image you typed into existence sits in a legal grey zone where ownership, licensing and commercial use all turn out to be weaker than you assumed.
Nobody breaks a project because git is hard, because three specific errors cause almost all the panic and each one has a boring, reliable fix.
A clean, findable presence gets you interviews and opportunities. Building one takes about an hour a week and contains zero inspirational quotes.
Early pages exist to be revised, not judged. Why expecting a perfect first pass quietly kills most projects before they get anywhere.
I was ready to give up my daily coffee. The receipts said something completely different. Here is the three-rule setup, the four leaks I found, and the boring way to run it yourself.
Everyone says get a side hustle. Nobody shows the spreadsheet. Here is the break-even maths, the costs nobody counts, and the one question that settles it in two minutes.
Investing sounds like a club with a secret handshake. It is not. Here is the order of operations — debt, emergency fund, then a boring index fund you actually understand.