Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) account for over 7% of Medicare spending, or approximately $46.6 billion annually.

related, story of the startup https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-to-sell-an-ea...

I agree that estimation questions (not "brain teasers" as coming up with the clever solution) are good. Developers should be able to think in orders of magnitude.

The new SEO fad is CEOs and CTOs writing articles trying to look like a regular guy.

Also the "C" in CTO means Chief, as in main manager (of managers); if you have no direct report you are not a manager, let alone a "chief" one; call yourself Founder/Distinguished Engineer

yes, the previous AWS incident to this one iirc ec2 instances were not reachable from AWS console (IAM issue?) but they kept running and working

> The wall was actually as likely to end five months from when they visited it, as it was to end 500 years from then.

I don't think this is correct; as in something that has been there for say hundreds of years had more probability to be there in a hundred years than something that has been there for a month.

'make your manager look good'

Make your manager's manager look good. Because only then you would be able to go up the food chain (assuming that is the goal. your manager may become your competitor/peer in this case).

their treatment of Israel-Palestine

or, both in modern times and during 'The Troubles', Ireland.

Biased does not mean it has to skew to a certain political leaning all of the time.