Reader, What is your strategy for filling AI engineering roles next year while managing clients and properly vetting technical talent? For the past six months, I’ve been partnering with two EU-based leaders on selling AI products and bespoke solutions. My role has been to vet small to mid sized businesses, run technical discovery, and help teams decide what to prioritize. The reality is messy. And misalignment rolls downhill. If that misalignment hasn’t hit your pipeline yet, it will within...

Hey newsletter friends, Social QA is officially shutting down for good. You probably saw this coming. I know I've been mulling it over for months now. The reality is, after I really dove into parkour coaching, I started to doubt that I'd ever return to QA education. I started to want nothing to do with QA outside of my 9-5. My energy and thoughts have been elsewhere since May or June. I haven't planned to seriously resume operations, especially since my parkour classes at the YMCA have been...

Hey there, I told you I'd let you know where I decided to document my parkour coaching journey. Here it is: >>> Door County Traceur blog I decided it would be a good excuse to try Beehiiv since they let you have a public blog and I always wondered how it compared to Kit. I'm only using it as a blog. No emails. Not sure how notifications work for it but if you want to know what's happening, check back for updates. Cheers, Steven