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Articles by Alan Mathison
The Cloud Is Moving Offshore: How Microsoft’s 2025 Labor Strategy Reignited the American Tech Jobs War
In 2025, Microsoft embarked on its largest workforce restructuring in years, cutting approximately 9,000 jobs, or around 4 percent of its global workforce. These reductions came on the heels of earlier layoffs — about 6,000 roles eliminated in May — bringing the total headcount decline to over 15,000 employees this year (Indiatimes; WSJ; Windows Central; TechRadar; GeekWire; EB5 Visa Investments; IndMoney; NBC Bay Area). Concurrently, scrutiny intensified over Microsoft’s visa activity.
ChatGPT’s GPT-5 UX DISASTER: A Full Timeline and Retrospective
On a summer’s day in August 2025, OpenAI’s slick campus in San Francisco hummed with a particular kind of tension — the kind that signals both achievement and existential risk. After months of speculation, the firm released GPT-5, hailing it as “its most advanced AI model to date,” with “improved reasoning, context understanding, and user interaction” and a bold promise: AI for all, unified, with no more model selection screen cluttering the creative process.
Elden Ring Nightreign “Onboarding Experience” and UX Suggestions from an Optimistic Product Manager
I came into Night Reign ready to pour 100 hours into it. That’s not a figure of speech — I made space, cleared time, and expected a FromSoft game that had grown from Elden Ring’s lessons. What I got was… confusing. Frustrating. Not broken, but scattered. Like someone handed a brilliant dev team a list of contradictory live service demands and said, “Ship it.” As a product manager and UX designer, I couldn’t not see the seams. So here’s the full teardown. Not from a journalist. Not from a streamer.
Neofeudalism by Design: How AI, Capital Power, and High U.S. Costs Are Collapsing the Middle Class
When Maya graduated with honors in 2023, she imagined a world of promise. A first job at a mid-sized tech firm, a few years’ steady salary growth, then independence. Instead, Maya watched her entry-level offer vanish as the company deployed an AI “copilot” that slashed junior headcount.
The One Win for Workers: How Trump Is Poised to Undo Biden’s Signature Global Tax Reform
When President Joe Biden supported the OECD’s global minimum corporate tax deal in 2021, it was hailed as a landmark move — a way to curb tax avoidance by multinational corporations and level the playing field for workers and small businesses. For all the ambitious rhetoric of “Build Back Better,” this agreement was arguably Biden’s clearest win for economic fairness. It took direct aim at the global tax avoidance industry and promised billions in new public revenue.
“Good Enough to Replace You”
AI doesn’t have to outperform your job. It just has to make it cheaper. You were supposed to be safe. You learned the tools. You worked remotely. You didn’t ask for much. You figured out how to collaborate with ChatGPT before your manager did. You optimized your resume with AI. You even started writing macros for inbox triage. But now you’re watching your value evaporate anyway. You’re not alone. At a recent team meeting, one woman shared how she’d spent years mastering the art of bulletproof resumes.
Women Are the Product
We say dating is broken like we’re not the ones still opening the apps. Still filtering. Still hoping. Straight women are exhausted. Straight men are disengaged. Everyone wants to win, but no one remembers the game they’re playing. Everyone thinks the apps were made for women. They weren’t. They were made to showcase us. Not to serve us. To sell us. Not to help us find what we want. To keep others wanting us. We weren’t the customers. We were the product. We didn’t inherit this system. We trained it.
Blood in the Ledger: The Coordinated Global War on the Poor
Debt is no longer a personal burden — it’s the global business model. Across continents, a quiet, coordinated siege is being waged on the poor. It doesn’t look like war in the traditional sense. There are no airstrikes. No declarations. But make no mistake: people are being starved out, bled dry, and systematically erased — not by dictators, but by spreadsheets. This is not a byproduct of policy failure. It’s the system working exactly as designed.
Feminism Finally Conquered Men. Are We Happy Now?
By all accounts, feminism won. Women are now more educated, more financially independent, and more empowered than any generation before them. We lead companies, dominate college campuses, and own property at record rates. In most industrialized countries, women under 30 out-earn men in major metros (Pew Research Center, 2022). We should be popping champagne. So why are we lonelier than ever?
My Neurodivergent Approach to IT Certifications
Staying focused and retaining information can be challenging, making the journey to achieve certifications more demanding. However, with the right strategies and determination, it is entirely possible to conquer these hurdles. In this blog post, I will share my personal experience of how I managed to pass multiple IT certifications, despite having ADHD. 1. Utilizing Text-to-Speech (TTS) and YouTube as Podcasts: Traditional study methods may not always work well for individuals with ADHD.
Corporations are not Caretakers
Over the past year, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech giants have collectively laid off more than 104,000 employees, a devastating consequence of technological progress. The tech industry, once a beacon of security and prosperity, has begun to falter under the pressure of economic change and the relentless march of AI innovation. Amazon, after a hiring spree during the Covid-19 pandemic, has culled 27,000 jobs as the company sought to streamline costs amidst economic uncertainty.
Manipulative Marketing Militarizing Civilians and Contravening Conservation
The strategic realignment of the firearms industry, which has moved decisively toward addressing and arming the civilian populace, has engendered a series of pronounced and deleterious environmental repercussions. This seismic shift in consumer appetites, driven by an intensifying proclivity for more powerful and lethal weaponry, has precipitated profound changes in the dynamics of the firearm industry.
Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–1954), mathematician and computer scientist
Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) by Elliott & Fry, 1951 © National Portrait Gallery, London Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–1954), mathematician and computer scientist, was born on 23 June 1912 at Warrington Lodge, Warrington Avenue, London, the younger child (after his brother, John) of Julius Mathison Turing, of the Indian Civil Service, and Ethel Sara Stoney (1881–1976), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.
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