AI Fatigue and The Argument Tax
I spent an hour and about $100 arguing with Fable about a stock I invented. Here is the four question test that ended it, and why the LLM provider got paid either way.
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The Rise of AI Engineering Pods
Requirements Monday, sprint Tuesday, demo Friday. Meta has already reorganized into pods and Cigna is hiring for them. Here are the five line items the pod model leaves off the slide.
AI Workflows: Future of ETL Pipelines
What if, instead of writing pipelines, engineers just described the outcome? Here’s my take on how AI will change how data engineers build pipelines.
The Best Books I Read in 2025
My four best reads of 2025: Man's Search for Meaning, Tao Te Ching, The Little Prince, and Nexus - the quietest, most intentional reading year yet.
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Almanac
Keeps a permanent, dated record of daily tech news and lets you search it by meaning instead of by date.
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A static Astro site for posts, projects and reading notes - no server, no database, no comments.
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Everest
Ranks stocks by how often they complete a full dip-and-recover cycle, to find names that give repeatable setups instead of one-off moves.
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Argus
Polls every endpoint, API, cloud status feed and database you care about on its own schedule, and prints one JSON line per result.
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View all books »The Best Books I Read in 2025
My four best reads of 2025: Man's Search for Meaning, Tao Te Ching, The Little Prince, and Nexus - the quietest, most intentional reading year yet.
The Best Books I Read in 2024
My eight best reads of 2024, from Outlive to 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - the year I read across health, leadership, and AI instead of picking one lane.
The Best Books I Read in 2023
My six best reads of 2023: The Black Swan, The 48 Laws of Power, The Psychology of Money, Never Finished, and more - my biggest library year yet.
The Best Books I Read in 2022
My three best reads of 2022: Blink, How to Change Your Mind, and The Data Detective - a short list from a year spent borrowing more than buying.