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.
The thing that makes high earners hesitate when they first hear about this strategy: It sounds like a workaround. Something that technically works but might get flagged, might get challenged,…
The Degree Was Never About Competence
The skills-based hiring discourse consistently skirts around something: the four-year degree requirement was never a reliable signal of competence. It was a filtering mechanism for scale. Before structured skills assessments…
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 —…
