Ep 10: Permission to Be New (Reflection)

The Unfiltered Engineer · Oct 15, 2026 · 22m · transcript

I said I’d trust myself more. A weak promise, honestly.

Then I went to a conference talk on loop engineering and inference engineering. I understood the terms. I walked out feeling more behind than when I walked in.

This is my second solo reflection. Every fifth episode I listen back, and this time I start by checking what I promised after episode 5. I did most of it. One I’m still working on, and I say which.

Then Sumit, Kshitij, Joy, and Raj: what I’m changing because of each, and where I’d push back.

In this one:

The job search metric I dropped because it was stressing me out

The thing I…