in|retrospect
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Year in Review — 2022
Compared to the year-long economic celebration of cheap capital in 2021, the contrast to 2022 is stark: raising interest rates, high inflation, a battered stock market, mass layoffs—and this is with a strong US economy with persistently low…
Our Obsession with Ranking
We, as humans, are obsessed with ranking things. I mean, sports are one of the ultimate expressions of ranking. They're about fostering competition to find the best athletes to play a game defined by sets of arbitrary rules,…
Asking an AI the Right Questions
It feels like 2022 is the year of democratizing AI. GPT-3 made headlines back in 2020 when it launched to a limited audience and its new users played around with the tool, but it took a little over a…
The Kinesis Advantage360
It took about 10 months, but Drop and Kinesis finally shipped their new Kinesis Advantage360[1] Professional keyboard over late September. Coincidentally, at about the same time, I started messing around with mechanical keyboards and had just built a GMMK…
Should Engineering Management Stay Technical?
In engineering management circles, a common question that gets asked—in podcasts, in job interviews, and sometimes in peer coaching sessions—is whether managers should stay technically proficient, and if so, how and how much. The subtext here is that…
Disrupting Twitter
My routine for writing blog posts here has 3 steps: 1. Capturing stray thoughts in a drafts folder in Typora with ideas in the shower or during my commute, 2. Develop those ideas into actual posts, collecting the finished blog…
