What I learned this week

Software

Redshift observatory

Foundational mental model to get the hang of ever “new” LLM conceptual churn:

  • An LLM
  • …called in a loop
  • …maintaining a history of stuff it’s done in the session (the “context”)
  • …with access to tool calls to do things. Like, read files, write files, call bash, etc.

Business/Finance

A breakdown of “if I call myself ‘x’ or manager of ‘x’ I make more Money”

How does a single person have the authority to carry this out

LINQ is cool

Motorcycles

I hate Turbo tax so much, please use this

AI is commoditizing code. Technical execution is table stakes rather than a competitive advantage. AI can generate code, but it can’t refactor the organizational reality customers have built around your architecture—the workflows, integrations, and institutional muscle memory that compound over time. * Is code really comoditized? Or is just boiler plate comoditized? But… wasn’t it already comoditized?

Math/Stats

Travel

Other

Could be fun to create a visual graph of all money-stuff posts

Stop putting screens on things that don’t need screens