August 25, 2026
The statistics you need
Distributions, uncertainty, and the tests you will actually run — with enough understanding to know when the answer is 'this sample cannot tell you that'.
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August 25, 2026
Visualisation
Choosing the right chart, then removing everything from it that is not the answer.
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AWS essentials
The dozen services almost every architecture actually uses — and the IAM model that governs all of them.
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Docker and Kubernetes
Package once, run anywhere — then the orchestrator, honestly assessed. Most teams need containers; far fewer need Kubernetes.
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Infrastructure as code
The console is for looking. Terraform is for building — reviewably, repeatably, and with a record of who changed what.
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Technical communication
Explaining your work to someone who has neither your context nor your enthusiasm. This is most of what a technical interview measures.
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Technical interviews
A separate skill from the job itself. Unfair, well documented, and entirely learnable.
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Evaluating an opportunity
The final skill: reading an offer honestly, and knowing what to ask before you accept one.
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AI product thinking
What changes when the system is probabilistic: the feature can be wrong, and the design has to hold that gracefully.
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AI-assisted discovery and research
Using models to move faster through synthesis and analysis — without letting them invent your findings.
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