Josh Swords

I remember finding Tom Augspurger's pandas code years ago and thinking it was beautiful.1 It sounds weird to say today, and new engineers might think wtf does it matter.

In the early nineties the US Environmental Protection Agency got into a fight with a company over a contaminated site in New Hampshire.

One of the easiest ways to make yourself feel bad is to put other people on a pedestal.

A good way to do great things fast is to set a deadline you probably can’t keep.

How do you decide if a job is worth taking?

The quality of technical judgement will increasingly determine the quality of strategic judgement.

Not long ago, everyone wanted to be a data scientist.

The question everyone seems to be asking lately is whether it’s still worth learning to code.

Most AI products today use the same models.

When I was young, my neighbour made me an offer: start at 1 and double it for every square on a chessboard.