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Attention Works Like a Muscle. That Means You Can Train It.
Daniel Goleman describes attention as a muscle: use it poorly and it withers, work it well and it grows. For engineers in…
RB Jul 15 · 9 min
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Continuous Partial Attention: Why You Are Never Fully in the Room
Linda Stone named "continuous partial attention" in 1998: always scanning, half-available, never fully landing on anything. For engineers in the AI age,…
RB Jul 13 · 5 min
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Rereading Your Notes Feels Like Learning. It Mostly Isn’t.
Rereading notes feels like learning, but it mostly builds recognition, not recall. Koriat and Bjork called it the illusion of competence. The…
RB Jul 9 · 4 min
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Information Is Free. Skill Is Not. — Becoming an Embedded Linux Engineer
There is no shortcut to embedded Linux skill. An honest, stage-by-stage guide from fresher to senior on what actually builds real, durable…
RB Jul 6 · 18 min
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Your Mind Answers Before You Finish Reading the Question
Daniel Kahneman showed that the mind jumps to a conclusion before it finishes reading the problem. In engineering, and in the AI…
RB Jul 5 · 4 min
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How to Switch to Embedded Linux from Application Development
A practical plan for working software engineers to switch to embedded Linux: what transfers, the skills employers list, and a six-month roadmap.
RB Jul 3 · 12 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Getting Your First Role
Campus placement stalled? Here are four realistic routes to your first tech job: open-source contribution, internships, smaller companies, and GCCs.
RB Jun 30 · 8 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Inside the Domains
A practical look at six durable tech domains for graduates after college: the entry skills, first tools, and one starter project for…
RB Jun 29 · 8 min
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More Information Has Never Automatically Meant More Wisdom
T. S. Eliot asked where the wisdom we lost in knowledge has gone. In the AI age, when information is free, the…
RB Jun 28 · 5 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Useful From Day One
The fresher bar has moved from trainable to useful from day one. What that means now, how it differs across durable tech…
RB Jun 27 · 9 min
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How to Get Your First Linux Kernel Patch Accepted
A step-by-step guide to getting your first Linux kernel patch accepted: choosing a change, writing the commit, checkpatch, get_maintainer, git send-email, and…
RB Jun 26 · 9 min
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Your Tech Career After College: Where to Begin
Entry-level engineering jobs in tech have shifted over the last few years, not vanished. What changed, and the durable domains worth investing…
RB Jun 25 · 9 min
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We Have Every Fact at Our Fingertips, and Still Freeze in Front of a Real Problem
Research on the "Google effect" shows that when we expect information to stay available, we remember where to find it instead of…
RB Jun 24 · 5 min
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AI Can Fetch the Answer. Only You Can Notice the Question.
A language model retrieves what is already known, but it cannot stand in your situation and notice what is actually being asked.…
RB Jun 21 · 5 min
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When Information Is Free, Attention Becomes the Scarce Skill
In 1971 Herbert Simon noted that a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. In the AI age, when answers are…
RB Jun 20 · 5 min
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