I got laid off—here's what they don't want me to say on Linkedin.

AI displacement, invisible labor and the VP who called content design 'text.'

Well, they finally got me. After seven years building products at eBay, Kayak, and most recently a company that just discovered private equity, I got the 15-minute calendar invite from a skip-level I’d never spoken to. You know the one.

This is the first episode of Tech Bro Confidential — not a place for Festivus styled grievances, but not quite a LinkedIn inspirational post either. Just the honest and occasionally profane truth about what it actually means to be a content designer inside product organizations that may or may not know what content design is.

In this episode: what the role actually requires, the internal politics nobody posts about and a VP who told me during a kickoff meeting we’d ‘do text later.’