How I Hacked My Morning Routine: I wiped a production database and now I am 100% definitely awake

It's great to recognize that dev who stays back late to put out fires, but it's worth trying to remember to recognize the one who quietly writes fireproof code… 🔥 #startups #availabilitybias

"The act of reading the memo gets the undivided attention of the team, but also, the writer is forced to be more clear and precise." by Julia buff.ly/3lAiS71

The Political Compass Test is well worth taking. Quite an enlightening exercise 🙂🙃 politicalcompass.org/test

Proud to have my latest ramblings refined and published by Better Humans ☺️ betterhumans.pub/a-guide-to-sma… #startups #decisionmaking

A widespread misconception about ML is that models are neutral/objective & just reflect the data fed into them. Modeling choices encode strong assumptions about the data, and further, the way you use your model in your application reflects your own understanding of the problem.

The spelling of aisle is unnecessary.

This is the International Fixed Calendar (IFC). It splits the year into 13 months (each with 28 days). And the world was very close to adopting it in the 1930s. Compared to the 12-month Gregorian calendar, IFC is much simpler: ▫️ Calendar is same every year ▫️ Each month has

Over the last decade no one has affected my world view more than this great thinker. I still remember* how staggering it was to first read some of those passages about how intuition works. RIP Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024). *I meant to say “my remembering self remembers…”

In my experience, "generalists" are really just serial specialists. Nobody is born a generalist; too many people use the label as an excuse for never actually learning anything deeply.

Truth 😅

2025 is 0% complete.

the guy who directly controls the world economy told me it was a good time to buy and I didn’t buy

The only cognitive advantage humans have over o3 is deep context

von Neumann gave us "zero-sum" in 1944 and it's one of my favorite examples of linguistic compression. Two words that mean “strictly competitive, fixed pie, stop looking for win-wins.” The term's real gift: it reveals the default human assumption that life is chess and value

PSA: Plant your trees farther away from your house than you think you ought to.

Nothing has won more arguments with less evidence than the phrase "it's just common sense."