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Rejection: Let it Fuel You
Why I Urged My Entire Team to Look for New Jobs—And Why They Stayed
A hacker could ruin your life. It did this guy’s.
How You Treat People on the Way Out Says Much About Your Leadership
Rejection: Let it Fuel You
Duke told me I would never make it as an engineer. At least not at Duke In high school, I attended a college recruiting event and told a representative from Duke University that I wanted to be an engineer. He nearly laughed when he heard my SAT score. "You're probably not going to be an engineer at Duke," he said. I attended the University of Florida and got my degree in Computer Science Engineering. Fast forward years later—after designing and building the original ICE trading platform, h
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Edwin Marcial
Why I Urged My Entire Team to Look for New Jobs—And Why They Stayed
I once told my entire team (about 200 people at the time) that they should all be looking for a new job. I was CTO at ICE and we were growing fast — probably about a year or two from our Initial Public Offering (IPO). I told them they should always be looking for a new job, exploring the market, and that it was my job, that when they did that, they always chose to stay. I said this because I believed in this, and its the way I always viewed my own employment. I have only had two jobs since c
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A hacker could ruin your life. It did this guy’s.
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How You Treat People on the Way Out Says Much About Your Leadership
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DeepSeek AI: The Latest Tool Handing Your Data to the CCP?
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Your car is spying on you
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Will AI make everyone dumber?
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Hackers have all of your personal data
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The Crowdstrike and Microsoft Debacle
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Your face for sale
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Pedigree is overrated
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Mama, don't let your kids listen to Mark Cuban
Many people are wondering if ChatGPT and other similar AI technologies that can write their own code will displace software engineers. Read below to understand why I think software engineering will be safe discipline for years to come.