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The Thought Drop

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Dropping some thoughts from my own mind. Click to read The Thought Drop, by Robert Ross, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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18 from 31 Dec 2017 to 14 Jul 2026
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now and then (4 in the last year)
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2026 3

  1. The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat
  2. The future is APIs
  3. Natural Opinions

2025 5

  1. Absent Parentage
  2. 13 Months Sober
  3. The AI SRE Startup Landscape
  4. On Band and Business
  5. Six Months Sober

2024 2

  1. Microsoft and my tinfoil journey
  2. Three new on-call providers emerge in a week. What gives?

2023 3

  1. The alerting tool ecosystem is so far behind it hurts – and I want to fix it.
  2. Your codebase is a Jenga tower
  3. Incident travel time

2022 2

  1. Call me Robert
  2. From Engineer to CEO - Year Three

2021 1

  1. It's time for standardized labels

2020 1

  1. Software and startups

2017 1

  1. Dear Mom