2025

2025-05-05 A trick for public speaking communication
2025-04-03 A guide for future managers management
2025-03-25 Live in the bookends epistemology
2025-03-12 Look at the thing! epistemology
2025-03-04 Perseveration and the economy of movement epistemology
2025-02-25 On company culture and culture keepers management
2025-02-14 Walk through walls epistemology
2025-02-03 Training and onboarding: The first 90 days management

2024

2024-03-12 ChatGPT and the newfound accessibility of unstructured data data
2024-02-21 Why doesn't data engineering feel like software engineering? data

2023

2023-01-27 Meetings which pay the rent productivity
2023-01-18 What makes a leader versus just a manager? management

2022

2022-05-16 On taking mental health days well-being

2021

2021-01-05 Why write, and how you can improve at it communication epistemology best

2019

2019-10-26 Building a webapp to visualize DMV wait times product
2019-10-14 Product managers solve the problem of not delivering products product
2019-10-14 A practical example of product management product
2019-10-14 Managers solve the problem of coordination failure management
2019-08-19 Causality, causal opacity, plausible deniability, cherry-picking concepts
2019-07-15 Complete contracts, the principal-agent problem, asymmetric information concepts
2019-07-01 Underdetermination, Gödel's incompleteness theorems concepts
2019-06-17 Agency, externalization concepts best
2019-06-03 Stress, inflammation, intelligence concepts
2019-05-20 Organized complexity, kayfabe, workism concepts
2019-04-22 Wabi-sabi, aphantasia concepts
2019-04-08 Eastern philosophy (part 2) concepts best
2019-03-18 Complexity engineering concepts
2019-02-25 Training & motivation, team performance, non-financial compensation concepts
2019-02-22 What makes a great conversation? relationships best
2019-02-04 Abstract thinking, leaky abstractions, the high-ground maneuver concepts
2019-01-14 Fairness, rule-breaking concepts

2018

2018-12-31 The just-world phenomenon, schadenfreude, mudita concepts
2018-12-17 Chesterton's fence, causality concepts
2018-11-19 Antifragility (part 2) concepts
2018-11-01 To be persuasive, you need more than logic communication
2018-10-29 Antifragility (part 1) concepts
2018-10-15 Death, cyclicality concepts
2018-10-01 Emptiness, impermanence concepts
2018-09-17 Eastern philosophy concepts
2018-09-03 Play concepts
2018-08-20 The prisoner's dilemma, the ultimatum game, a keynesian beauty contest concepts
2018-08-06 Single-shot games & zero-sum games concepts
2018-07-23 A market for lemons, signaling concepts
2018-07-23 Status is good, as long as you don't identify with it well-being
2018-07-09 Emergent order, regime switches, chaotic behavior concepts
2018-06-25 Nonlinearity, contagion, feedback loops concepts
2018-06-11 Complex adaptive systems concepts
2018-05-28 Complex systems concepts
2018-05-14 Hanlon's razor, coalition building concepts
2018-04-30 Shift gears when the initial approach yields little information productivity
2018-04-30 Optimization, hill climbing, simulated annealing, the explore/exploit tradeoff concepts
2018-04-16 Cities and ambitions, the submarine, negotiating concepts
2018-04-02 Deep relationships concepts relationships
2018-03-30 Use heuristics for the middle of a distribution, not for the tails epistemology
2018-03-19 Crash-only software, seating charts, loneliness, learning to learn concepts
2018-03-17 Why postmodernism superseded modernism epistemology best
2018-03-05 Coase's nature of the firm concepts
2018-02-24 Writing imposes structure and rigor upon my beliefs epistemology
2018-02-22 Most beliefs we hold are inherited, not evaluated epistemology
2018-02-19 Pace layers & the Hegelian dialectic concepts
2018-02-05 Extremizing algorithm, Metcalfe's law concepts
2018-01-22 Spheres of exchange, the fallacy of mood affiliation, soft power concepts
2018-01-08 The fundamental attribution error, pain + reflection = progress concepts

2017

2017-12-31 How I remember thoughts from my showers misc
2017-12-25 The Feynman technique, disregard!, and Google search tricks concepts
2017-12-11 The fallacy of parsimony, kaizen, the half-life of facts concepts
2017-11-27 Decision hyperparameters concepts
2017-11-25 For alpha, be informed and risk-seeking; otherwise, stick with beta risk best
2017-11-13 The helpful hierarchy and kairos concepts
2017-11-05 When logic binds you to change your own behavior logic
2017-10-30 Servant leadership & resilience engineering concepts
2017-10-29 Pursue intrinsic, not extrinsic, sources of motivation well-being
2017-10-16 Risk & return, hyperglycemia, statistical significance, corporate diversity concepts
2017-10-15 If something is "risky", consider its distribution risk
2017-10-02 Cultural imprinting, conspicuous consumption, costly signaling, the aspirational self concepts
2017-09-18 Dialectical thinking, memento mori, the 60/40 rule, tax avoidance concepts
2017-09-06 I am at war with multitasking productivity
2017-09-04 "Smart" people must also be open-minded epistemology
2017-07-19 Preventing common analytical errors: Join duplicates and join misses data
2017-07-03 Always learn the shortcuts productivity
2017-06-26 Learn just enough Linux to get things done data
2017-06-08 Technical skills every business analyst should have data
2017-04-13 Why a simple average is the most frequently miscalculated statistic (Part 2) data
2017-04-11 Why a simple average is the most frequently miscalculated statistic (Part 1) data

2016

2016-08-10 The data pipeline: A practical, end-to-end example of processing data (Part 3) data
2016-06-22 The data pipeline: How the sausage gets made (Part 2) data
2016-06-22 The data pipeline: Data science doesn't mean data science (Part 1) data
2016-06-08 You should use DBeaver as your database IDE data

2015

2015-12-14 Google's OpenRefine works great with messy, survey-like data - and that's it data

2013

2013-11-01 Does modern society have place for honour anymore? economics