Bigger Monsters: Is it time to go after harder problems?
AI has given us mech suits. Does this make us stronger or weaker? What does work and humanity look like now?
Writing
Open Sourcing Our Flagship Product
What stays paid when code is nearly free
Less Impressed, More Involved: A Guide to Using Claude Code Effectively
How to use Claude Code effectively: key concepts, common pitfalls (tumbleweed effect), and a workflow to ship faster without losing codebase familiarity.
Proof of Thoughtfulness: Writing in the Age of AI
What changes in a world where human thought becomes the minority
The New Rules of Coding: Engineering in the Age of AI
Time to update the algorithm building software products.
Lindy Coefficient
A measure of the expected remaining lifespan of non-perishable entities
Thinking Like Humans: Exploring GPT-4 Applications
What's behind the sudden improvement in AI efficacy. Why generative text models will always have a leg up. What use cases will emerge in the second wave of GPT-4 applications.
On Restlessness
Resilience vs stubbornness. Exploitation vs exploration. How the multi-arm bandit problem tells us to allocate our resources. Seneca and Socrates on traveling.
Deliberate Content Consumption
A paradigm shift in information flow. How controlling content input gives you a bigger advantage than ever before.
A Practical Philosophy
A venture into Stoicism, Socratic questioning, and neuroscience