career

Kenneth Reitz writes about his experience and the importance of setting up boundaries between yourself, your employer and your projects.

I discovered this essay through the Brain Baker's March favourites.

The story of a tech hub, Gaza Sky Geeks, in Gaza and West banch, their founding, success, and dispersion after the Israeli bombing in 2023. Despite the hardships the Gaza Sky Geeks never fully stopped operations. It's a sad piece but there is hope.

Discovered via Satyrs' garden.

These layoffs surely must be a fad of the times, it can't be true that almost every major organization has over hired in the last few years.

The IRS is looking to revert their reduction in force program, which I discovered via TheMorningNews.

The Internal Revenue Service is no longer planning to pursue layoffs as it seeks to rebuild parts of its workforce. The tax agency is now working to plug staffing holes with hiring, reassignments and rescinding the administration’s deferred resignation offer for some employees upon finding mission-critical staffing gaps.

In other news, Trump issues an order to create the National Design Studio to improve government websites for the people. Seems good on paper until you realize DOGE shutdown 18F whose job it was to do exactly this.

Jeff Bridgforth shares two pieces of advice that could greatly help your career. The first is "networking", something that doesn't come as naturally to me as described in Jeff Bridgforth's post. The second is maintaining a career management document that records your work over time.

While I felt the first point was over-indexed on at my university, I never came across the second until I worked for an employer that recommended logging accomplishments to highlight when it comes time for promotions. I wish I'd started this sooner in my career.