Principles of Making

Every transformative technology forces us to unlearn what we thought we knew about our customers.

Worthy read for all modern software builders.

Brent Simmons highlights how corporate cultures often prioritise promotion-seeking over real innovation, a reality I've seen myself.

2 weeks in Istanbul and Cappadocia

Building a platform alongside a product is hard.

Chat with friends: exploring the challenges big tech companies face in making bold, innovative decisions due to structural inertia and revenue protection.

Talks of big ideas and where AI is going.

Pictures from my Bali trip

Friend of mine was mentioning how some companies are looking to dump Figma in favour of Replit.

Good video on the differences.

This post delves into balancing autonomy and consistency, why duplication isn’t always bad, and how simplicity can outshine forced uniformity.

I gave up on most things “social media” years ago, resorting to just messaging friends.

I’ve been writing a blog since I’ve been in high-school.

We’ve been working on some terrific discovery stage projects in my team.

If you are looking to dive into machine learning, how neural networks and LLMs work underneath, this is a really good YouTube course to watch.

It is time to work through our division operating plan for 2025.

After a 4 year hiatus, we returned to doing slightly longer holidays.

It helps to find your own path to success.

Fantastic article on The New Yorker on “Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art“.

Great quote from “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters” by Richard Rumelt: “If the business is really successful, then there is usually a good strategic logic behind that success, be it hidden or not.

What kind of principal / staff engineer are you?

…Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results.

Recently, we spent a week in Phuket (Thailand) to get away from our busy work schedules to just chill by the beach.

I recently had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Asia in Taipei.

Good article on the topic: https://cmry.github.io/notes/euclidean-v-cosine

Great show about living forever.

Recently, couple of my teams decided to combine their codebases.

I got into a fun chat with my friends about unengaged people at work.

Worth the read (images in the post).

Recently, @henry sent over my 2020 performance evaluation I had shared with him.