The Double-Counted Future
In 1997, Jeff Bezos sent a letter to shareholders about Day 1\. Despite the rapid growth he was seeing, he wanted to keep the startup mentality. He wanted to give ownership alon...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
Nobody is Thinking Anymore
Everyone works in AI circles. There's a specification at least halfwritten by AI. There's a piece of code 80% written by AI. There's a strategy document 60% written by AI. If ev...
The Void Job
More than a decade ago, I was working on a job scheduler similar to Airflow. We called it Woodsy internally. At first, it was quite simply an application that only uploaded CSV...
What Does Retirement Look Like?
I find myself thinking about retirement a lot recently, especially when talking to family members. I also don’t think about retirement at the age of 60+. I have been following d...
There May Be Nobody There
I’ve encountered a new acronym that I immediately fell for. AI;DR. Now, it means artificial intelligence, did not read. Why does this sound good, though? People are protesting t...