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Nobody talks about the math of a 9-5 job. They should.

I used to think I only sold 8 hours a day to my employer. Then I actually tracked a typical workday during my banking years and the reality made me sick.

6:00am alarm. Drag myself out of bed while my wife is still sleeping. Shower, shave, put on clothes I didn't choose to wear. Eat breakfast standing up because there's no time to sit.

6:45am out the door. Kiss my wife goodbye. She's barely awake.

7:15am sitting in traffic. Surrounded by thousands of other people doing the exact same thing. Everyone staring at brake lights and pretending this is normal.

8:00am arrive at the office. Put on the face. Pretend to care about spreadsheets and meetings that accomplish nothing. Laugh at jokes that aren't funny because your boss made them.

12:30pm sad desk lunch. Eating a sandwich while answering emails. This doesn't count as a break. This is just eating while working.

1:00pm back to pretending. More meetings. More spreadsheets. More nodding along to things that don't matter.

5:00pm finally leave. Back into traffic. Another hour of staring at brake lights.

6:15pm walk through the door. My wife asks how my day was. I say "fine" because I don't have the energy to explain that I spent 8 hours doing things I don't care about.

6:45pm finally sit down. Body exhausted. Brain fried.

7:00pm too tired to do anything useful. Too drained to work on my own projects. Too exhausted to be fully present with my family. Just existing until it's time to sleep and do it all over again.

13 hours gone. 8 of them paid.

I did this for over a decade. Ten years of trading the best hours of my day for a salary that could disappear with a 15-minute Zoom call.

The company got my energy, my focus, my best ideas. My wife got the leftovers. I got the leftovers of my own life.

When I got fired I thought my life was over. Turns out it was just beginning.

Now I work from home. I wake up when my body is ready. I eat breakfast with my daughter. I do my best work in the morning when my brain actually functions. No commute. No pretending. No trading 13 hours for 8 hours of pay.

The 9-5 is a lie. It was never 9-5. It's a 6-7 that steals your entire day and leaves you too exhausted to build anything for yourself.

If you're stuck in this cycle, start building something on the side. Even if it's just an hour a day. Even if you're tired.

Because the alternative is doing this for 40 more years and wondering where your life went.

How many hours does your "8 hour job" actually take from you?

So many marketing executives need to hear this: Please stop wasting money on dumb sh*t.

It is insane to me how much people hold on to yesterday. They love a good billboard. They love newspaper ads. They love TV ads. And they sh*t on social media creative.

Marketing friends, you must challenge your organizations. You're spending money based on fake reports, fake impressions, and fake reach...GRPs, awards, headlines.

Technology is undefeated. Stop wasting marketing dollars on outdated ideas and platforms.

Most candidates walk into interviews trying to be right.
The best ones walk in ready to adjust.

When someone can take feedback in real time, process it, and improve their answer, it signals something rare.

They are coachable. They listen. They do not get defensive. They prioritize progress over ego. In a fast-moving company like acquisition (dot) com, that matters more than having the perfect answer the first time... at least for me.

Your ability to accept feedback shows how you will operate once hired. It proves you can handle pressure, adapt quickly, and collaborate without friction.

It shows self-awareness, humility, and a bias toward action. Hiring managers are not just evaluating what you know. They are testing how you learn. The fastest way to stand out in an interview is not to be flawless, it is to show you can get better on the spot.

To everyone just starting out:
Take a picture of your early beginnings (no matter how raw).

Every epic story is made 100x better with a picture of “where it all started” and if you think you’re gonna make history, might as well make it history.

- Alex ✊🏽

Almost 10 years ago, I moved to the US with one goal: to work in machine learning.

That was the entire plan.

What I didn’t expect was how many turns my career would take after that, and how none of them were planned.

I started as a data scientist and fully believed that’s the path I would stay on.

Then one day, a friend from Columbia University reached out while starting his company and asked if I wanted to come in as the first Developer Relations hire.

I didn’t even know what Developer Relations meant back then. It wasn’t a well-defined role.

But I said yes.

And I ended up loving it. It felt like I had found a completely new angle to my work, where I could combine AI, open source, and the developer community.

From there, things kept evolving in ways I never anticipated.

I got opportunities to advise startups, invest in companies, speak on global stages, work closely with Fortune 500 teams on product decisions, and teach AI engineering to thousands of professionals.

Here’s what still surprises me:

Almost all of these opportunities came inbound.
They showed up in my inbox.

Not because I planned for them, but because I was consistently putting my work and thinking out there on LinkedIn.

I didn’t start posting to become a “creator.”

I started for two very simple reasons:

✦ To connect with people who cared about the same things I did
✦ To be visible for others, especially women in tech, who needed to see that there is space for them here

As an immigrant woman building a career in AI, that second reason mattered a lot to me.

Over time, something interesting happened.

People started reaching out saying they resonated with something I shared. Conversations turned into collaborations. And some of those turned into opportunities I would have never imagined for myself.

From the outside, it can look like luck, but it wasn’t random. It was consistency over time. It was building a strong foundation and making that visible.

LinkedIn is still one of the most underutilized platforms, even in 2026!

Most people only show up here when they’re looking for a job. But if you use it to showcase your skills, your thinking, and your journey, it can completely change the trajectory of your career.

You don’t need to be a full-time creator.

Whether you’re a student, a 9 to 5 professional, or a founder, you just need to make your work visible.

Over the years, I’ve figured out how to do this without it taking away from my core work as an AI professional.

I’ve condensed all of that into a simple, practical LinkedIn playbook.

If you’ve been thinking about putting yourself out there, I’d highly recommend checking it out: https://lnkd.in/ePQg3K5K

Opus 4.7 just launched and ate your credits.

Here are 10 ways to get them back:

The benchmarks are up.
Your token usage is up too.

4 things changed at once:

✦ Tokeniser uses up to 35% more tokens
✦ Default effort raised to xHigh in Code
✦ Adaptive thinking replaced extended thinking
✦ 3x vision upgrade eats tokens automatically

10 ways to stretch your credits:

1. Use the right model

- Haiku handles 80% of daily work.
- Sonnet covers the next 15%.
- Opus is for the 5% that needs it.

Stop leaving Opus on for everything.

2. Turn off the token burners

- Web Search adds 2 to 3x tokens.
- Connectors add 1.5 to 2x.
- Adaptive thinking is always on now.

Leave everything else off by default.

3. Edit, do not stack

- Click edit on your last message.
- Claude re-reads the new version only.
- You skip the full conversation reload.

One edit saves more tokens than a new message.

4. Fresh chat every 15 messages

- Message 1 costs around 200 tokens.
- By message 15 you are spending 10,000.
- By message 30 a single question costs 50,000+.

Summarise what you have and start fresh.

5. Batch questions into one

- Three messages means three context loads.
- One combined message means one load.
- Claude sees the full picture at once.

The answers are better too.

6. Spread your work across the day

- Claude runs on a 5-hour rolling window.
- Burn through it in one session and you wait.
- Split into 2 to 3 sessions and quota frees up.

Space your work and your oldest messages expire.

7. Use Projects for repeat files

- Same PDF in five chats costs five token loads.
- Projects cache your uploaded files once.
- Every new chat reads them free.

Upload once and stop wasting tokens on the same file.

8. Store your context once

- Memory for Chat.
- CLAUDE.md for Code.
- Skills for repeated workflows.

Write these once. Never repeat yourself.

9. Resize images before uploading

- The 3x vision upgrade means 3x tokens
- A screenshot costs triple what it did before.
- Downscale or crop before you upload.

Your eyes do not need 4K. Neither does Claude.

10. Drop effort in Code

- xHigh is the new default.
- Switch to "low" for routine tasks.
- Save 60%+ tokens per response.

Not every task needs maximum effort.

Repost ♻️ to help someone in your network.

P.S. I ran out of credits writing this post.

Fashion creator Kalu Putik is KILLING it! 🔥 👀

Putik is based in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, and is going viral for his highly creative and bold fashion content.

All using locally sourced materials and everyday objects to create his looks.

No expensive tools. Just an insane eye for creativity and whatever he can find around him.

The internet is absolutely loving it and honestly, so am I.

Brands like Nike Sportswear are clocking this type of content and snapping up creators who have built an audience entirely on their own terms with their own aesthetic. 👀

Rooting for Putik 🙌 Find him on IG @𝗸𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀.

Scrolling LinkedIn for 5 minutes reminds me why I got banned over 10x since 2919.....

Step 1: Luke reads a post.
Step 2: Luke comments what he thinks.
Step 3: People laugh/hate/cry.
Step 4: I get reported.
Step 5: I can't log in.

Apparently I didn't ever learn that you are supposed to just do the following:

Lie and comment "I agree"
Suck up to the author of the trash post.
Care about being liked.

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