Shared Physics

Someone once asked me whether you can join a dysfunctional company and still have a good career.

Well here we are.

I have a two year old, which means I’ve been reading a lot of stories with some morality or lesson baked into them.

Here’s a 🌶️ spicy take: I think practice at human/LLM interactions can lead to better human/human interactions.

In "Identifying Signals of Expertise", I ended up cutting almost 2000 words to keep things succinct and focused.

One of the most useful questions I've used for evaluating expertise during a hiring interview is: Tell me about a time when you did something you thought was right, and later it turned out to be a mistake.

Over two weeks, I put Claude 3.7 and ChatGPT 4o through their paces on analyzing real marketing data and creating strategic and tactical artifacts.

Subtitle: How Studying Healthcare’s Contracting Models Changed the Way I Buy Ads The Promise of Outcomes Raise your hand if you’ve ever worked with or had to hire an advertising/performance marketing agency and been underwhelmed by the promise – but not g…

In the early 2020s, FTX founder (and eventually convicted criminal) Sam Bankman-Fried remarked, "I'm very skeptical of books.

In ten years of public reading and writing, last year was an outlier.

What a year it’s been!

I've recently found myself explaining what software development is to people who are on the periphery of technical work but don’t know how to approach it.

Lots of product and engineering teams debate having “document-led” versus “demo-led” cultures of building.

In February 2023, I recorded a podcast with Kayla Cytron-Thaler at Canny.io about the role of product management, building products from scratch, and more.

I've tracking books that I've read since 2013 or so, and writing about it since 2020 (2020, 2021).