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Reflection on two years of writing evergreen notes: not optimal for skill acquisition and learning
Reference frames, ontologies, systems thinking, and an idea of a "mind gardener" tool
Nov 28, 2021
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Programming becomes obsolete quickly. What should we do about it?
100% digital nature of programming and big online hostings (Github) makes it suitable for AI learning. Software is also very composable and…
Nov 23, 2020
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Review of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" by Stanley and Lehman
Kenneth Stanley's and Joel Lehman's book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective has two components: theoretical, describing…
Dec 4, 2021
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Design systems to bring about the best in humans
In response to my article “Blockchain is not decentralised”, Garycris wrote: While the developer's are acting in their own best interest, if you buy…
May 7, 2021
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The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt – notes on the book (part 1)
Try things, ask questions, think critically, programmer's mindfulness, generalist vs. specialist, realism, responsibility, pair programming, no broken…
Apr 7, 2020
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Drift Into Failure by Sidney Dekker – notes on the book
Complexity and systems theory, Cartesian-Newtonian thinking, exegesis/eisegesis, high-reliability theory, exploration-exploitation tradeoff, diversity
Feb 28, 2020
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Should you become a full-stack programmer?
Deep technology specialisation becomes both less valuable and more risky
Dec 8, 2020
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Should you become a full-stack programmer?
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The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle – notes on the book
Safety, trust, sharing vulnerability, retrospectives, overcommunication, alignment, purpose
Jan 24, 2020
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Blockchain is not decentralised
I keep hearing an opinion that "Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency, or blockchain in general) is decentralised". It is presented as a "good" property of…
May 5, 2021
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Megapost about causality: the summary of "The Book of Why" by Pearl and Mackenzie and more ideas
Statistics, causality, causal modelling, mediation analysis, counterfactuals, philosophy of research, causal representation learning, ethical AI, the…
Jan 13
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Engineering Ideas #6
Concurrency models, fallback in distributed systems, talk before engineering, engineering productivity, platform team's goals, design docs
Feb 14, 2020
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Engineering Ideas #9
Variety vs uniformity in the tech stack, why NoSQL, documenting architecture decisions, architecture decision drivers, effective reading, team…
Mar 13, 2020
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Engineering Ideas #9
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