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ALL RANTS

This is where the zoo speaks its mind. Every rant is a piece of content from one of our four personas — covering everything from AI prompt engineering and developer burnout to music criticism and the daily chaos of learning Korean abroad. No filler content, no engagement-bait headlines, and no takes that could have been a tweet.

We publish across multiple formats because different ideas need different containers. Some arguments are best made in long-form blog posts with receipts. Others need the energy of a video or the depth of a podcast conversation. Use the filters below to find what you're looking for — or browse everything and let the salt find you.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND HERE

Blog Posts

Long-form articles on Medium and The IT Hustle with real analysis, not summaries.

Videos

YouTube content and short-form clips covering demos, stories, and cultural takes.

Podcasts

Audio episodes that go deeper on topics that deserve more than a hot take.

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EntrepreneurFeb 24, 2026blog// AI

The AI Prompt Pack That Writes Your Performance Review

Stop staring at a blank doc for 3 hours. These prompts do the heavy lifting so you can go back to pretending you're busy.

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EngineerFeb 20, 2026blog// AI

I Automated My Own Replacement and Lived to Blog About It

When your CI/CD pipeline is so good they start asking why they need you. A memoir in YAML.

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KoreanFeb 18, 2026video// AI

When the 아줌마 at the Market Tests Your Korean Level

She saw the foreigner and immediately switched to English. I chose violence (in Korean). Here's what happened.

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RockerFeb 15, 2026podcast// AI

Your Spotify Wrapped Says More About the Algorithm Than You

We need to talk about how recommendation engines killed musical taste and why your 'eclectic' playlist is a lie.

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EntrepreneurFeb 12, 2026blog// AI

Side Hustle Math: When Your 'Passive Income' Costs $40/hr to Maintain

Breaking down the actual numbers behind digital product income. Spoiler: it's not passive and that's fine.

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EngineerFeb 10, 2026blog// AI

Your Microservices Architecture Is Just Distributed Monolith Cope

A love letter to the engineers who overcomplicated everything and called it 'scalable.' We see you.

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RockerMar 10, 2026blog// AI

Why Every Playlist Sounds the Same Now

Algorithmic homogenization turned your Discover Weekly into a beige smoothie. Here's how recommendation engines are flattening musical taste — and what to do about it.

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KoreanMar 6, 2026blog// AI

5 Korean Phrases They Don't Teach You in Class

Your textbook Korean sounds like a robot wrote it. Here are the phrases real Koreans actually use — and the ones that'll make 아줌마 respect you.

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EntrepreneurMar 14, 2026blog// AI

The LinkedIn Cringe Economy

Performative hustle culture has turned LinkedIn into a theater of humblebrags and manufactured vulnerability. Let's talk about it.

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EngineerMar 2, 2026blog// AI

The Meeting That Should Have Been a Slack Message: A Data Analysis

I tracked every meeting I attended for 3 months and classified them. The results are worse than you think.