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🎵 ROSALÍA - LUX ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎵 Sleigh Bells - Bunky Becky Birthday Boy ⭐⭐⭐
🎵 Sabrina Carpenter - Man’s Best Friend ⭐⭐⭐
🎵 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl ⭐⭐

Building Tools for the Safety Net: My Year in Propel's AI Residency

After discovering I'm definitely not a "growth team" person and watching Glitch wind down, I'm back in civic tech where I belong – this time in an AI Residency at Propel. We're building tools to help states and SNAP beneficiaries navigate HR1's massive changes, including new penalties that charge states more money for higher error rates. During the recent shutdown, I built crawlers to get real-time benefit updates to folks and created the most comprehensive database of active food pantries using AI tools. It's not the sexy AI that gets TED talks – it's the kind that keeps benefits from being wrongly terminated because we finally taught a system that gig work counts as employment.

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🎮 The Outer Worlds 2 ⭐⭐⭐
🎬 Bugonia ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📺 Only Murders in the Building S5 ⭐⭐⭐
📺 The Diplomat S3 ⭐⭐⭐
📺 Foundation S3 ⭐⭐⭐
🎬 Thunderbolts* ⭐⭐⭐
🎵 Laufey - A Matter Of Time ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Three Months at Handshake!

After three months at Handshake, I learned that sometimes the most valuable career experiences are the ones that clarify what you don't want. Despite making great friends and working with talented early career engineers, I discovered that being on a growth team wasn't for me – I'm a thoughtful, document-everything kind of engineer, not a move-fast type. With the mismatch in work styles it became clear this wasn't the right fit. This post reflects on what worked, what didn't, and the lessons I'm taking forward about vetting opportunities and knowing your own work style.

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🎬 Freakier Friday ⭐⭐⭐
🎬 Weapons ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎵 Cory - Hanson I Love People ⭐⭐⭐
🎵 Haim - I Quit ⭐⭐