{"podcast":{"title":"AsianDadEnergy's Substack Podcast","slug":"asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112","podcast_index_feed_id":7711112,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/7828661.rss","website_url":"https://asiandadenergy.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/7828661/0e56a960967ec0a0f2e30f994340e451.jpg","author":"AsianDadEnergy","episode_count":40,"summary":"This is a very public journal of anxiety, existential dread, and way too much tech knowledge. Basically therapy, but with Wi-Fi.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T10:21:29.212443+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112"},"episode":{"title":"The Tech Layoff Crisis No One Wants to Talk About","slug":"the-tech-layoff-crisis-no-one-wants-to-talk-about","published_at":"2026-05-15T15:52:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112/the-tech-layoff-crisis-no-one-wants-to-talk-about","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112","url":"https://asiandadenergy.substack.com/p/the-tech-layoff-crisis-no-one-wants","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197877589/583a789fbbc81bb7772d7bd0c9294d79.mp3","summary":"Another week passes and another wave of layoffs crashes through the technology industry like a tidal wave. At this point, the disappearance of thousands of highly experienced engineers has become so common that it barely shocks anyone anymore. Entire departments vanish overnight. Decades of institutional knowledge disappear behind a carefully worded email and a severance package. But there is another group of people affected by these layoffs that nobody really talks about. The survivors. The people who remain employed are often viewed as the lucky ones. They still have a paycheck. Their stock grants are still vesting. Their LinkedIn profiles still say they work at a prestigious company. From the outside, they appear safe. But inside many large technology companies, surviving layoffs can feel like becoming trapped inside a pressure cooker. The workload grows heavier while job security becomes thinner. Teams shrink while expectations expand. Critical systems still need to function, deadlines still need to be met, and billions of dollars still depend on software that was often stitched together over decades by engineers who no longer work there. The survivors inherit all of it. In the summer of 2023, I found myself inside exactly this kind of situation. After a brutal round of layoffs at my company, nearly half of my organization disappeared. Senior leaders were gone. Teams were forcibly merged together into a larger organization built from the wreckage of the previous one. I went from serving as a Chief Architect to functioning as a Senior Enterprise Architect again. Professionally, it felt like traveling backward in time. I was angry about it. But I stayed. Like many people in tech, I had financial reasons to endure it. My next round of RSUs had not vested yet, and walk…","meta_description":"Another week passes and another wave of layoffs crashes through the technology industry like a tidal wave. At this point, the disappearance of thousands o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":777,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112/episodes/the-tech-layoff-crisis-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/asiandadenergy-s-substack-podcast-7711112/the-tech-layoff-crisis-no-one-wants-to-talk-about.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}