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On becoming a person (book) It reframes therapy as a relationship instead of a treatment.
2 months ago
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The person behind the idea When reading, it is worth understanding the kind of person authors are.
2 months ago
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Love's Executioner (book) Countertransference applies to regular conversation.
2 months ago
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Risk-takers decide faster Unsurprising connection between risk and speed.
3 months ago
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When coordination pays off Stories about Stripe Link where we have to do a lot of upfront coordination but it was worth it.
4 months ago
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There Is No Antimemetics Division Notes on the book.
4 months ago
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Default blind In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.
5 months ago
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The Perfectionists (book) A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.
6 months ago
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The Market for Takes Solving for the Twitter equilibrium
7 months ago
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But I want to turn people into dinosaurs Beware of what you actually want.
7 months ago
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Vibes are music, arguments are lyrics Losing My Religion is not about religion and Arguments are not about arguments
7 months ago
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We need visual programming. No, not like that. Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do...
7 months ago
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Creative kernels Artists can often trace entire pieces around one idea that drives everything else.
7 months ago
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Industrial macros Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to the database.
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Incentives as selection effects When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
8 months ago
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Hiring from Big Tech Some brief notes about the subject
10 months ago
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The battlefield where arguments fight A lot of speech is about convincing others of what type of arguments have merit
a year ago
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union Notes from reading the book by Zubok
a year ago
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The birth of a (pseudo) currency A dozen pseudo-currencies were issued in Argentina in 2002. How did that work? And why are they...
a year ago
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a year ago
A dozen pseudo-currencies were issued in Argentina in 2002. How did that work? And why are they coming back in 2024?
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Designing for support teams Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from consumer software. Here are some things to keep in mind.
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Twitter's Sith and Jedi In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can reach. But when they lean into hate, they lose their soul to it. Twitter offers the same bargain as the Force.
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Enterprise sales meets product development What I’ve learned from selling enterprises while developing a new product. This is less of a guide...
a year ago
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a year ago
What I’ve learned from selling enterprises while developing a new product. This is less of a guide and more of a cautionary tale.
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Pricing APIs Lessons from AWS S3 and others on how to price APIs.
a year ago
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Semantic gaps Swedish has a specific word for each of the four grandparents: mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar....
a year ago
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a year ago
Swedish has a specific word for each of the four grandparents: mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar. English doesn’t. So when you mention your 'grandma' to a Swede, they are left wondering 'which grandma?' even if it is not relevant to the story. That is a semantic gap.
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Notes on UX and LLM integrations I analyze 8 apps (ChatGPT, Notion, Perplexity, etc.) that use or integrate LLM and try to break down...
a year ago
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a year ago
I analyze 8 apps (ChatGPT, Notion, Perplexity, etc.) that use or integrate LLM and try to break down when and why they work well, or poorly.
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How to: friction logs Friction logs are a technique to improve your own products and understand others. You use the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Friction logs are a technique to improve your own products and understand others. You use the produdct the way a real user would and write down every single moment you experience some form of negative emotion.
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Lieutenants are the limiting reagent Why don't software companies ship more products? Why do they move more slowly as they grow? What do...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why don't software companies ship more products? Why do they move more slowly as they grow? What do we mean when we say "this company lacks focus"?
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Interfaces for logical migrations This post explains how you can use interfaces to make data model and database migrations easier.
a year ago
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Everybody is the main character People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny....
a year ago
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a year ago
People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny. Make it clear to them that they are!
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Team-oriented, outcome-oriented Some people care about helping their team. Others care about achieving outcomes. It is important to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some people care about helping their team. Others care about achieving outcomes. It is important to know who is who.
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Breaking changes in JSON APIs A collection of common breaking changes to JSON APIs for you to keep in mind as you design.
a year ago
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How to avoid breaking APIs The main trick is to design them with extension in mind so that you won't have to break them later.
a year ago
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Payments vs Transfers Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has a lot more requirements than a transfer system and I rarely see the crypto ecosystem acknowledge these when building "payment" products.
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Math intuitions on variance This is a supplement to High Variance Management, where I build some intuition on the different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a supplement to High Variance Management, where I build some intuition on the different probability distributions involved.
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High Variance Management How should you manage a team that is trying to achieve results out of the ordinary?
over a year ago
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APIs as ladders APIs are hard to learn. If you think about the learning curve of your API, you can design one that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
APIs are hard to learn. If you think about the learning curve of your API, you can design one that works for beginners, novices, and experts.
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The secondary market in gift cards This post by patio11 covers a few things that I learned working with gift cards over the years.
over a year ago