The Blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

How did a simple biscuit with an unchanged design survive nearly a century while 90% of modern startups fail? The answer might surprise you.

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.