The new world order, explained
It is not great powers competing, it is Game of Thrones.
Getting the main thing right
Shipping is the core. “it is surprisingly hard to motivate yourself to focus on the main thing. It’s much more natural to just jump into something that looks probably useful and start working immediately” https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-the-main-thing-right/
Why does light exist?
Physics is cool.
Basic Planning
I am still amazed sometimes as some professional are amazed by simple task effort estimation, planning and prioritization. This seems to be an actual skill that many have issues discovering, not even speaking of mastering it. If you can do… Read More »Basic Planning
The Moral Economy of the Shire
Even fiction can be grounded in economy. “our protagonists aren’t typical Hobbits. Bilbo, Frodo, Merry, and Pippin are all very clearly members of the landed gentry, the landowning class that controls most means of economic production and maintains social dominance… Read More »The Moral Economy of the Shire
Let’s save the human species!
World is changing rapidly and what is true today won’t be so in a few decades. “It’s difficult to state just how stark and catastrophic of a collapse this is. The number of births in China fell by 17% in… Read More »Let’s save the human species!
Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering
You cannot avoid politics. “The most brilliant technical solution is worthless if you can’t get the people around you to adopt it.” https://hodgkins.io/blog/quiet-influence-a-guide-to-nemawashi-in-engineering/
When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays
Time isinear because we decided it is, not because it is. “Humans perceive three spatial dimensions: length, width, and depth. But mathematicians have long theorised there were more. In the 1880s, the mathematician Charles Hinton popularised these ideas, and went… Read More »When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
Estimates help but are hard. “the majority of software work is not like this. We work on poorly-understood systems and cannot predict exactly what must be done in advance. Most programming in large systems is research: identifying prior art, mapping… Read More »How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire — And Why America, the Second Rome, Is Walking the Same Path
New Rome is in trouble. “Empires do not end because they want to. They end because the numbers leave no alternative.” https://nitishastra.substack.com/p/how-debt-bankrupted-the-british-empire