The Remote Work Tax Deduction Most People Get Wrong
I want to lead with the thing that would save most people from either missing deductions or claiming ones they don’t qualify for, because the confusion here is genuinely costly…
Your Password Can Be Reset. Your Face Cannot.
The pitch for passkeys is compelling on its face. No more remembering passwords. No more phishing. Cryptographically unbreakable by design. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have been rolling them out across…
The IRS Knows About the Backdoor Roth. They’ve Never Tried to Stop It.
I want to start by addressing the thing that makes high earners hesitate when they first hear about this strategy. It sounds like a workaround. Something that technically works but…
The Degree Was Never About Competence
I want to start with something the skills-based hiring discourse consistently skirts around: the four-year degree requirement was never a reliable signal of competence. It was a filtering mechanism for…
The Return-to-Office Mandate Revealed Who Actually Has Power at Work
There’s a principal engineer I know — I’ll call him Marcus because that’s what the JLL research calls his type — who works at a Fortune 500 tech company with…
The Privacy Laws Everyone Celebrated Have a Hole in Them. It’s the Size of Your Bank.
I read through California’s CCPA when it passed. Then Colorado’s. Then Virginia’s. Each one was covered as a meaningful step toward consumer data rights — the ability to know what’s…
A Tax Break Designed for Retirees Is Being Claimed by Almost None of Them
I’ve been paying attention to the tax changes that came out of the One Big Beautiful Bill — the legislation Congress passed on July 4th, 2025 — and most of…
The AI Performance Review Scandal That Wasn’t
In early 2024, directors of engineering at companies like BetterUp started posting their ChatGPT prompts for writing performance reviews on LinkedIn. Not anonymously. Not apologetically. Openly, as productivity tips, as…
Death by Subscription
I did the audit for the first time properly about eighteen months ago. Not the casual “I should probably check what I’m paying for” scroll through a bank statement —…
The Resume Myth That’s Costing You Interviews
I spent about three hours rewriting a resume last year based on advice I’d read about ATS compatibility — adjusting keywords, switching to a single-column format, removing a table I’d…
