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✨ 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗕𝟭 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 ✨ When it comes to the EB1 visa process, one piece of advice I often share is: Don't copy someone else's profile. While it might seem tempting to replicate the approach of someone who succeeded, your story, achievements, and contributions are what truly set you apart. The EB1 criteria are designed to highlight your extraordinary abilities—not a cookie-cutter version of someone else’s journey. Immigration officers evaluate the originality and impact of your work, which means a one-size-fits-all approach often falls flat. So, how can you make your profile unique? ✅ Reflect on Your Journey: What problems have you solved? What innovations are tied to your name? ✅ Showcase Your Expertise: Think about the awards, recognitions, or key projects that demonstrate your influence. ✅ Build a Compelling Narrative: Connect the dots between your accomplishments to tell a cohesive, authentic story. Every EB1 recipient’s profile is as unique as their fingerprint. By staying true to your strengths and achievements, you not only increase your chances of success but also build a case that genuinely reflects who you are. 💡 Looking for support on your EB1 journey? 1️⃣ Join our EB1A Slack community, where we share insights, strategies, and inspiration to help you craft a winning profile. Join here: https://lnkd.in/gdcxCU7U 2️⃣ Book a personalized consultation with me to get tailored guidance and actionable feedback. 📅 Book a call here: https://lnkd.in/gCgsKfix Let’s make your EB1 case as extraordinary as your story. 🚀

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Ever wonder why some companies can ship software at lightning speeds while others seem stuck in the mud? 🚀⏳ . . . . . . . . . Daksh Gupta of Greptile collected real-world insights from engineers at many of the world's largest tech companies, unpacking the intricacies that either propel or impede the speed of shipping code. The big reveal? Older and larger companies tend to move more slowly because the costs of missteps become greater. In some cases, those costs are fairly non-negotiable (e.g. ensuring software for customers in production remains secure) while in other cases, the costs are more optional and cultural (e.g. wanting a lot of accurate estimates, forcing a manager's vs. maker's schedule, etc). #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #DevelopmentVelocity #Innovation #Productivity

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I am not sure Google’s primary duty should be to shareholders, including mass firings to pay for GPUs. As a shareholder, I am thankful to be able to own a few shares of Google in my retirement account. But Delaware Supreme Court case law serves unjustly as a faux federal loophole to maximize profits above all else, enabling amoral fiduciary duty to conventional shareholders. And it seems that employees are shareholders - should one class of shareholders be favored over another? It seems like the law needs to include stakeholders like the economy in which a company arises and the communities in which it does business. If a given government has a shrinking middle class, is it not true that eventually the corporate tax base will not be enough to pay for adequate national defense or safety nets? I happen to be pro-Google, especially because of their contribution to help so many businesses utilize the trackable ROI of Google Ads, and for many other reasons. As far as I know they obey the law - and it seems like the law needs to change. I also happen to believe it is good for the world to spread economic opportunity and jobs. But what makes up for all the money and tax these core Google employees were spending on the American economy, or the people who will lose out on a job opportunity because a Xoogler applied? Housing costs in SF are insane, what about their mortgages? Maybe they are millionaires, maybe not. I kind of doubt Google fired AI engineers, but maybe instead of hiring domestically they will hire wherever the AI labor is cheapest. I happen to be pro-immigration and my ancestors were immigrants. I don’t pretend to presume the right balance of domestic and offshore workers. I have been very pleased to collaborate with people and pay them out of pocket and be able to afford it because of the labor discount. But I am not a hugely profitable corporation either. I tend to believe in unfettered capitalism and that too much tax and regulation can stymie an economy and hurt everyone. Yet an economy needs to be sustainable, and not just for conventional shareholders. I am not sure there is a check and balance to the “duty to shareholders”. Public outcry used to be one, but not anymore, not after the massive tech hiring and layoffs. Maybe it is just competition. But it doesn’t seem biomimetic, as in natural balance between various forces in a biological system. If an economy was a body and large corporations were organs in the body, if money was water and employees are like blood, then the corporate organs seem to be growing abnormally and taking more moisture out of the system. In a normal body the organs would have limited growth but in this body the corporate organs are growing larger, while the rest of the body slowly dries out, and blood clots form from employees who are no longer needed. The corporate organs are less reliant on employees and are now making their own blood and selling it.

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Join us for a conversation with Peggy Rayzis on building a "Developer Intent led" GTM motion! We explore the key drivers that led to the wild success of Apollo Graph QL... followed by an AMA Link to register in comments. Feel free to share any questions

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All conversations start with how my profile/ EB1 application looked. Here's a brief review of what I think worked. https://lnkd.in/g3pTgc4P More blog posts are on the way as I break down the conversations I have been having. And, as always, find a time to chat here: https://lnkd.in/gJ2eyCGP #EB1 #EB1A #immigration #profile

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Google has cut 10 per cent of its managerial positions, including directors and vice-presidents. to streamline operations amidst growing competition from AI-focused rivals like OpenAI, #AI #Google #Artificialintelligence

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Mohit gives a good intro and overview of bufferbloat, codel, cobalt, and PIE: https://lnkd.in/gwQNjwFh

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Check out our blog post with Fengyu Zhang and Birjodh Singh Tiwana on how we are incorporating dwell based signals to improve feed experience for LinkedIn members. Thanks to Siddharth Dangi, James Sorenson, Allison Liu, Hailing Cheng, and Yafang Yang for their discussions, data analysis and prior work. https://lnkd.in/gmkSzPWn #linkedin #deeplearning #ai #feed

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Waymo is probably both more expensive and longer waits on average than Uber or Lyft today, but they are close enough, and rapidly getting better. These markets will flip to fully autonomous when the tech is ready.

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I am excited to share the latest blog, co-authored by myself, Junhwi Kim and Vyas Sekar, detailing how we managed to successfully localized and improved LLM by combining Fine-Tuning and RAG. https://lnkd.in/gKDkgGPq

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Discover how AI is transforming India's MSMEs! With 94% recognizing AI’s growth potential and 87% confident in its productivity benefits, the future looks bright. The majority advocate for accessible AI technologies and training programs, while nearly half emphasize tailored use cases. Explore these insights and more in our latest article. #AIFuture #Meta

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Discover how AI is transforming India's MSMEs! With 94% recognizing AI’s growth potential and 87% confident in its productivity benefits, the future looks bright. The majority advocate for accessible AI technologies and training programs, while nearly half emphasize tailored use cases. Explore these insights and more in our latest article. #AIFuture #Meta

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I just realized: we should start saying "build memoization" rather than "build caching." We aren't really talking about least-recently-used or time-to-live algorithms, we're talking about "don't bother recompiling this piece if none of its inputs changed." (It has been puzzling me that some people are so deeply fearful of "build cache" as a concept, and honestly I think it's mostly because most build systems have non-hermetic state scattered all over the place. Maybe a slightly more precise term for the type of caching we're concerned with would clarify the semantics in question.)

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Two facts: First: Jack and the Storefront team handle some of the most interesting problems at Recharge if you're into caching, synchronizing, and lots of data puzzles to solve. Second: I work with the team as Principal so we'd get to have some fun while we do the first part.

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Excited to share that I have migrated my blog to Github pages using the Jekflix theme from thiagorossener/jekflix-template! It's been a breeze publishing new content and I highly recommend checking it out. Head over to itmusings.com to take a look at some of my old but still relevant blog posts. #githubpages #blogging #webdesign . By the way, this post is written using Linked In AI which is pretty cool :) By the way if you have cached my previous blog in your browser you may get a 404. This is because I had used a 302 redirect before in the old blog. You may want to check this article to remove the 302 from your browser cache. https://lnkd.in/g2-QzUeq

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"I really hate when estimates become deadlines," a senior software engineer once told me at a start-up that was hitting a rough patch after early success. After some thought, I think there's a practical truth here that some may not like to hear: in software engineering, every estimate is a deadline (just to varying degrees). No matter the size of the company when times are good, estimates help guide the roadmap. But when the pressure is on, those same estimates are treated like firm deadlines and you will be held accountable for them. Ideally, estimates would be just that: estimates. But the reality is that in this industry the more you can treat them as deadlines and deliver within conservative timelines, the more you set yourself up for career success. What do you think? Have you seen this play out in your experience?

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Wow! Time flies. It’s been 100+ days and 100+ articles on ML and leadership. Let me highlight a few from last 3 weeks. Be cautious with the outside the box thinking. “If a product strays too far from users' mental models, it risks rejection”https://lnkd.in/gZCJzzeZ What makes a senior engineer? “when confronted with a problem, offer multiple solutions, each with its own trade-offs. They collaborate across different functions to select the most suitable option” https://lnkd.in/gaqMfrdg How to improve your decision process? “[temporal] separation ensures that creative ideas receive the attention without premature dismissal, allowing for further refinement“ https://lnkd.in/gX8xAy_C No, manager don’t need to have the answers. As a leader you need to answer the "why are we here?" question. https://lnkd.in/g4eUWb_r

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While there are certainly individual variations in skill and experience when discussing modern software development the story is much more nuanced than pure individual effort.  * software development is a team sport -- individual performance is heavily impacted by the system in which they are asked to operate in.  * we pair skill and experience to this model of understanding performance by expecting people to be able to influence and adapt in direct proportion to their seniority, aka the more senior you are the more responsible you are for the outcomes of your work, the less senior you are the more your manager and management chain are responsible.  * humans want to succeed, we're social animals who derive purpose from demonstrating skill, and working collectively. All of which is to say there is no way you have over 1000 people underperforming at your company without senior leadership deeply implicated in.  If nearly 10% of your company is failing, versus just having the market move against you, you need to fire the CEO.

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Check out the latest in our "Debuggability" blog series! This blog is authored by Kevin Downey Jason Johl and me and talks about how we built a Debuggability Paved Road at Intuit using Ephemeral Containers and Argo Workflows. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the topic. Also, what tools do you build as-a-platform to help debug service, compute and network issues in Kubernetes at scale? #intuit #kubernetes #debug

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