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I was an Amazon L7, I led global AI enablement, I was laid off
- MrBuddyCasino 9mo agoAnother data point: "Spent half a decade at Amazon, and all the folk I see being cut today are strong, performant Amazonians. Not fifo, but cutting the high performers that made Amazon successful, the doers, the expensive ones, the L6+ folk that define the culture. This is what we used to call frupidity (iykyk)" https://x.com/BaldSkeptical/status/2016680049886249098 https://x.com/BaldSkeptical/status/2016680049886249098
- nacozarina 9mo agolol, he’s let ai talk him into blowing his severance on a political campaign there’s always crazy ideas at that moment, but you gotta check yourself…
- armchairhacker 9mo agoI’d rather have more people run for Congress, even if they’re very unlikely to win. Maybe one of them will break through like Trump or Macron, but even if not. it pressure existing Congress-members.
- speakingmoistly 9mo agoLooks like he filed for candidacy back in April 2025 [1]. [1] https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6TX02236/?tab=about-candidate#information https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6TX02236/?tab=about-cand... Edit: added year to disambiguate.
- firmretention 9mo agoThere's something very funny about the lead for global AI enablement blogging about his layoff with AI slop.