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My LinkedIn headline currently reads: Technical Product Leader | Payments & Fintech | ex-Nium · ex-AmEx. I haven’t decided how long I’ll keep it that way. Some days it feels like useful context. Other days it feels like I’m leaning on something I should have moved past. I haven’t fully resolved it, which is…
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The body is almost always the last thing we listen to, even though it speaks first. Before the mind has fully registered that something is wrong, the body usually already knows. There is a tightness somewhere. A flatness in the energy that does not match the calendar or the caffeine intake. A sleep that…
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At some point, the idea of the self-made person became one of the most celebrated stories a culture can tell. The person who started with nothing, who relied on nobody, who through pure will and effort arrived at something significant. It is a powerful story. It is also, in almost every case, not entirely…
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In January 2026, Amazon announced another large round of layoffs, cutting roughly 16,000 corporate roles worldwide. This followed earlier reductions in late 2025, bringing the total number of eliminated corporate positions to around 30,000 within a matter of months. The announcement arrived even as the company reported healthy financial performance and doubled down on…
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Over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern in many companies. There’s a lot of effort put into celebrating employees and their families — family days at the office, pictures of kids drawing on whiteboards, parents being invited to see where their son or daughter works. It’s all heartwarming. These events can make a workplace…