I'm sure there is probably some good advice in there for the "laid-off engineer" but that article begins with a tangential three paragraph note to startup founders. That is not what you are selling and tangential material should be at the end (if you want your target audience to actually read your post).
When the article does start it starts with:
You have done 10, maybe 15 years as an Engineer. But your Github is empty. It has 0 shades of green for the last year or so. What’s your excuse? The Dunning-Kruger effect is so strong in Silicon Valley Engineers. Sometimes, this impression is formed when those Engineers introduce themselves. They have been laid-off recently, for sure. Despite that, they do not pretend to need or to ask for a helping hand.
This reads as if it was computer generated nonsense. I stopped reading at this point.
I know engineers who dropped out of the tech years ago and couldn't be happier. The truth is, no matter how much you're getting paid, many many of these jobs are terrible. Hopefully some people use this as an opportunity for a new beginning.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadWhen the article does start it starts with:
You have done 10, maybe 15 years as an Engineer. But your Github is empty. It has 0 shades of green for the last year or so. What’s your excuse? The Dunning-Kruger effect is so strong in Silicon Valley Engineers. Sometimes, this impression is formed when those Engineers introduce themselves. They have been laid-off recently, for sure. Despite that, they do not pretend to need or to ask for a helping hand.
This reads as if it was computer generated nonsense. I stopped reading at this point.