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Showing posts with label CareerDevelopment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CareerDevelopment. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Departing AWS: Conscience, Growth, and Work-Life Balance

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I decided to feed my last blog post on leaving AWS into NotebookLM: The provided text is an  extended, introspective essay  written by a se...
Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Why I left AWS after 4.5 years as an L7 Senior Engineering Manager

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Earlier this year, on 05/30 (this is how Amazon writes dates, 30th May) I walked out of the amazing Amazon Africa headquarters in Cape Tow...
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Monday, 23 September 2024

Understanding the "Seven Year Shift" for Career Growth

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Man, Richard Hamming's talk is doing a number on me. So much of what he said, back in 1986 is still relevant today! Calling out Hamming...

Timeless Advice for Ambitious Software Engineers

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Timeless Advice for Ambitious Software Engineers Back in 1986, Richard Hamming, a highly respected figure in the world of mathematics and c...
Sunday, 1 September 2024

The Jenga of life

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Jenga metaphor #thismightnotwork It's been ages since I last shared a metaphor on this blog. This one hit me during my morning walk toda...
Sunday, 14 July 2024

What are you willing to walk away from?

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Table of Contents Introduction The Concept of Walking Away Insights from 25 Years of Professional Experience Personal Experienc...
Friday, 5 July 2024

Claude.AI - Story 4 of 4 - Theme, when to walk away, cultural fit challenges

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  Experiments with claude.ai ( I stopped using chatGPT) Prompt: “ Sometimes it is okay to experiment with new experiences long enough to rea...