Always invite Anna. “Every Friday night we’d make plans to go out together and party. But Anna would always refuse to come. She’d say something along the lines of “I have to study” or “I just don’t feel like it […]
A million tiny whispers. This is a good podcast interview with a very clever content pro I used to work with, Logan Freeman. “Logan shares tactical approaches for optimizing content for LLMs (large language models), including using FAQ schemas, focusing […]
The management skill nobody talks about. Drawing from Dr. Becky Kennedy’s parenting advice, the article highlights the importance of “repair” in management. Acknowledging errors, taking responsibility, and genuinely fixing the fallout can build more trust than trying to be flawless. […]
You can try to like stuff. “It could be food or music or people or just the general situation you’re in. I recommend this hobby, partly because it’s nice to enjoy things, but mostly as an instrument for probing human […]
Anki is already dead. “Anki’s fatal flaw is that you think you are learning content, but you’re actually just memorizing rectangles.” The article argues that static Anki cards aren’t aligned with natural human learning processes and suggests dynamic methods using […]
Curing your AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome. I think the danger of adopting this writer’s point of view is that one stops looking around and eventually does miss the boat. “A few months ago I went through a bit of […]
Stop solving your team’s problems for them. “Many leaders today are struggling to balance the aspiration of being supportive with the reality of feeling overwhelmed by their own to-do list. But when a well-meaning leader becomes the default problem-solver, the […]
Purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers. “Formal education is valuable, but it is optimized for scale. It distills messy practice into neat sequences that fit a semester. Those recipes create useful proficiency, yet they rarely […]
Cocktail party ideas. People often discuss trendy topics with a certainty that can only come from a surface level of understanding, or misunderstanding. “Asking people why they think their solutions would solve valuable problems in the field has become a […]
Why your brain needs a box cutter. The romanticized version of a career is not the career. “Apparently 57% of Gen Z would like to be social media stars, and that’s almost certainly because they haven’t unpacked what it would […]