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sbensu

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38 from 13 Dec 2021 to 27 Jan 2025
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2025 1

  1. Language thought-orientation

2024 25

  1. On becoming a person (book)
  2. The person behind the idea
  3. Love's Executioner (book)
  4. Risk-takers decide faster
  5. When coordination pays off
  6. There Is No Antimemetics Division
  7. Default blind
  8. The Perfectionists (book)
  9. The Market for Takes
  10. But I want to turn people into dinosaurs
  11. Vibes are music, arguments are lyrics
  12. We need visual programming. No, not like that.
  13. Creative kernels
  14. Industrial macros
  15. Incentives as selection effects
  16. Hiring from Big Tech
  17. The battlefield where arguments fight
  18. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
  19. The birth of a (pseudo) currency
  20. Designing for support teams
  21. Twitter's Sith and Jedi
  22. Enterprise sales meets product development
  23. Pricing APIs
  24. Semantic gaps
  25. Notes on UX and LLM integrations

2023 10

  1. How to: friction logs
  2. Lieutenants are the limiting reagent
  3. Interfaces for logical migrations
  4. Everybody is the main character
  5. Team-oriented, outcome-oriented
  6. Breaking changes in JSON APIs
  7. How to avoid breaking APIs
  8. Payments vs Transfers
  9. Math intuitions on variance
  10. High Variance Management

2022 1

  1. APIs as ladders

2021 1

  1. The secondary market in gift cards