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The Rise of the Bullshittery
A few thoughts on how the modern economy has stopped rewarding people who know what they are doing, and started rewarding people who know how to look like they do.
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Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
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Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
Why SaaS business is now a harness one.
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Extinction-Level Capitalism
Matthew Butterick
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TSMC Risk
If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.
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The AI Industry Is Lying to You
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The death of the brick and mortar toy store
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why more and more local stores are going defunct. A …
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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism
I am the Computer Troubleshooter. I offer computer repair, data recovery and information technology services to the public of Santa Rosa, California and it's surrounding areas.
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My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54. How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking chang...
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.
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AI, Tools and Transformation
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t
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No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons . Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War…
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The most important product decision is what you don't build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
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How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employ…
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The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
The engineer who says no all the time is a real archetype among senior and staff engineers. Their role is to slow things down, to block the development of…
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Margin Call
Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.
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Surprising economics of load-balanced systems
I have a system with c servers, each of which can only handle a single concurrent request, and has no internal queuing. The servers sit behind a load balancer, which contains an infinite queue. An unlimited number of clients offer c * 0.8 requests per second to the load balancer on average. In other words, we increase…
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Code is cheap now, but software isn't
The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
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Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
I wrote a piece a long time ago about The Wolf. It's my personal take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren't a myth. They exist. I've seen them.
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The Sideprocalypse
You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems…
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Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.
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How is Groq raising more money?
Somehow, Palpatine returned.
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The rich aren't your role models
We are told that wealth is a measure of contribution. The richer a person becomes, the more they must have given to society. This is one of the founding myths of capitalism. It is repeated so often…
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Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed
I have been a director of engineering for a bit over three years now, and I still hear and read what I call the "old rules" repeated over and over: a director should not spend time coding, good work takes time, protect the team from the business, get consensus before
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Game Theory Patterns at Work
Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…
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No more JetBrains products for me
The personal website of Matthew Kosarek
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What Meta got right with Muse
Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play.