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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 28/09/2026

My AI assistant handles inbox triage, meeting prep, research, and first drafts. It's called Muse. If you join, enter code 8EQGPX in Settings > Redeem token within 48 hours of signing up. We both earn credits. #AI

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 25/09/2026

Job openings are up 13%. Hires are up 2%. 400 applicants. 40 resumes read. 6 interviewed. 1 hired. Gave a talk this week at DisruptHR: "Everyone Is Cheating Now." The recruiters laughed. Then they stopped. sterlingsmith.fyi/cheating

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 24/09/2026

Driving Austin → Bentonville tonight to talk hiring tech at Disrupt HR NWA tomorrow. If you're there, come say hi.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 23/09/2026

Happy Hump Day, Austin! 🧑🏾‍💻☕️

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 22/09/2026

Greenhouse's 2026 report: 63% of job seekers have sat through an AI interview. Only 1 in 5 believe employers use that AI responsibly. The tool got adopted faster than the trust did. Would you take an AI interview if nobody told you what it measured?

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 21/09/2026

John Coltrane's album "A Love Supreme" is truly a wonderful experience.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 21/09/2026

One of the ATS platforms we integrate with just started charging for API calls that used to be free. No announcement, we just noticed the dashboard looked different. Every integration you didn't build is a lease, not a purchase. Anyone else renegotiating a vendor this month?

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 19/09/2026

Saturday mornings be like 🌮 🚲 ☕ 🤘🏾 #AustinTexas

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 17/09/2026

Sometimes the best art happens under a deadline.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 16/09/2026

Everyone's excited about AI agents doing recruiter work. Almost nobody's excited about explaining what the agent decided when a regulator asks. That gap, not the agent itself, is the actual product problem in hiring right now.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 15/09/2026

A federal judge just let the Workday AI hiring bias case keep moving. The AI doesn't decide who gets hired. It decides who a recruiter ever sees. If it screens you out before a human reads your name, nobody upstream knows to ask why.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 10/09/2026

Be kind to yourself today.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 17/08/2026

First Light Bookstore and Coffee Shop is top notch. 🤌🏾

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 17/08/2026

Name a career AI can’t replace.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 11/08/2026

The job doesn't get taken away. It just never gets posted. Dario Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish in 1 to 5 years. I wrote about what preparing actually looks like: sterlingsmith.fyi/impact

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 03/08/2026

Austin –> Martha’s Vineyard 🕶️ Who’s coming?!

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/08/2026

The age of technical cofounders is gone. RIP.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/08/2026

Anyone in Austin down to photowalk tomorrow morning? 🤘🏾📸

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 31/07/2026

claude cowork just expanded to mobile and web. anthropic, google, openai all shipped model updates in 3 weeks. the frontier is priced and tiered now, shipping monthly. which release are you actually running in production?

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 29/07/2026

38.5% of candidates flagged for AI-assisted interview cheating recently, up from 9% three months ago. companies are pulling interviews back in person to dodge it. that's a retreat, not a fix. trust scores solve what a room is a workaround for.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 28/07/2026

T-Mobile's outage today is a good reminder: redundancy is boring until the day it saves you. every founder should know their own T-Mobile moment before it happens to them. 📡 #FounderLessons

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 23/07/2026

Claude Code is the new Netflix.

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RightMatch AI @rightmatch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

you posted the job. 400 applied, 394 never got a real shot. the résumé that used to sort them is broken too. 500,000+ candidates evaluated on rightmatch, by a real interview, every time. one interview. seen forever. rightmatch.app

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 20/07/2026

Automattic and Expensify don't require résumés anymore. ChatGPT made every résumé read the same. We bet on the interview over the résumé a year early. If résumés are dying, what replaces them at your company?

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 04/12/2025

Remote work 👨🏾‍💻☕️🔴📸 #AustinTX

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 27/11/2025

Post Malone is a whole Country Singer! 😭

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 27/11/2025

Hot take: Apple should create an “Oura-like” ring so I can wear my analogue watch and still close my Activity rings. 💡 💰

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 23/11/2025

Hot take: Apple should create an “Oura-like” ring so I can wear my analogue watch and still close my Activity rings. 💡 💰

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 23/11/2025

Charlotte has potential 🤩

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 23/11/2025

To my Leica lovers – Would you consider swapping a Leica M11-D for the new Leica EV-1?

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/06/2025

Delta Airlines is the best.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 11/05/2025

Happy Mothers Day to all the mommas! 🫡😘

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/05/2025

Sooooo many emaillllllls.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/05/2025

Realized this morning—if you never see poverty in your own community, it’s almost as if it doesn’t exist at all.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/05/2025

Realized this morning—if you never see poverty in your own community, it’s almost as if it doesn’t exist at all.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 01/05/2025

Honest question: Why do so many people still consider LeBron James 🐐? He’s certainly Top 5, but 🐐, 👀? #Respectfully

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 30/04/2025

Very excited about the launch of Raycasts’ iOS app! Here’s the link to the launch video: youtu.be/QCd3WlwqMiM...

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Unboxing Raycast for iOS

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 29/04/2025

We already know Dak Prescott and Patrick Mahomes would have gone... Who else is a lock? Tap in 👇🏾

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 27/04/2025

Ryan Coogler out here giving us The Blueprint.

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 27/04/2025

TD Jakes conspiracy theories? Tap in here 👇🏾 l.threads.net/?u=https%3A%...

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 26/04/2025

This makes my day. 🌞 — Witnesses claim he left behind a game board and a cryptic note reading, "Call me when you’re serious about connecting your cities with roads."

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 19/04/2025

Netflix started by renting DVD, YouTube started as a dating site, Google started as a research project, Amazon started as an online bookstore, Discord started as a chat app for gamers, Canva started as a tool for making yearbooks. Big wins start messy. You’ll figure it out as you go. Just start…

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Sterling @sterlingsmith.fyi · 17/04/2025

Resumes are becoming relics. The future of hiring is competency-based, powered by AI that matches people to roles by skills. Imagine interviewing candidates who truly fit, without the fluff. That’s what we’re building at @joinrightmatch.com. #FutureOfWork #TalentAI www.mckinsey.com/featured-ins...

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Future of Work | McKinsey & Company

As automation changes the world of work, governments, businesses, and members of the workforce can take action and adapt.

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