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🚀 Halfway to Amazing: Your Mid-2025 Newsletter Roundup
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Can you believe we're already halfway through 2025? 🎉 Time flies when you're making an impact! As June draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to connect with you. Your commitment to staying informed and engaged with our newsletter community has been incredible, and there's still so much exciting ground to cover in the months ahead. Before we leap into July, I wanted to make sure you didn't miss any of this month's most valuable insights. If you haven't had a chance yet, grab your favorite beverage and dive into these issues: ​Automate Your Deep Work Hours (While Eliminating Distractions)​ ​A Playbook to to Make Your Writing Work Harder (With AI)​ ​A Playbook to Onboard Clients Seamlessly (No-Code)​ ​A Playbook to Repurpose PPTs into AI Videos (No-Code)​ ​ This social post will change how you interact with AI ​ ​ |
The Modern Engineer
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When network engineering gets hard (and it always does), most engineers retreat into one of two worlds Naive Optimism: The world where you tell yourself “AI won’t affect my role,” where every automation trend is overhyped and where the future feels safe because the past felt familiar. This mindset avoids the uncomfortable truth and clings to blind confidence. Hopeless Realism: The world where every advancement in AI feels like a threat, where every new automation tool signals your eventual...
The Tree Chopping Trap I’ve been thinking a lot about how network engineers spend their time, and I keep coming back to this metaphor that perfectly captures what I see happening across the industry. Most of us are stuck chopping down trees. Let me explain what I mean. Your day looks something like this: alerts flooding your monitoring system. A switch that’s reached end-of-life but still works fine. Other teams ask why their application is slow. Your inbox has 247 unread messages. Your Slack...
7 Lessons from Warren Buffets’ Final Letter As network engineers, we often think in terms of packets, uptime, redundancy, and scalability. But leadership lessons don’t just come from tech, they come from everywhere, even the investing world. Warren Buffett’s November 10, 2025 thanksgiving letter (his final one as CEO) offers timeless wisdom, and many of his insights map surprisingly well to how we build and operate networks. Here are 7 lessons we can apply. 1. Be Humble About Luck Buffett...