The Sweet Spot

Uh-oh, you’ve been plugging away at this feature launch for months and you just can’t get the metrics to be positive enough to ship.

Below is an edited copy of a memo I circulated at work.

As a reader, reading AI-generated content brings up deep feelings of revulsion and makes it harder to connect to the author's content.

There is just so much AI hype going around nowadays, it's hard to figure out what's real and what's noise.

No matter the hype, there's something addictive about AI coding that makes it hard to ignore.

Steve Jobs famously said that computers would be like "bicycles for the mind".

After a career built around startups, scale-ups and consulting, I left Lyft and landed a role in Google (YouTube) in 2022.

In which we debug a production bug (loosely based on a real bug at Lyft) and check its fix in the TLA+ model checker!

What Math ✨ can bring to your daily toolbox of programming tools to write robust, concurrent programs: a light introduction to TLA+.

What career move will give you maximal exposure to technologies, industries, and orgs?