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Writing - Andreas Fragner

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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
5 months ago
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Summer reading list 2024 Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.
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It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
7 months ago
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Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
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Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
a year ago
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Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure — they all need to be set...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure — they all need to be set up for that. To do that, you have to have the confidence to break with best practices. And that confidence comes from knowing what risks actually matter in your context.
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Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
a year ago
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a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
a year ago
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a year ago
One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
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Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
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The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
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Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...