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’15’20’25
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43 from 29 Sep 2011 to 14 Oct 2026
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weekly (27 in the last year)
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2026 20

  1. How I Beat Jet Lag
  2. Be Nice to Claude. It’s Not About Claude.
  3. Sam Altman said something true. Said it badly. The internet lost its mind.
  4. Steelmanning AI Policy with the AI Rosetta Stone
  5. “Risk” vs. “Risk” vs. “Risk”: Why AI Arguments Fail Before They Even Start
  6. LLM Models Are Bullshit Engines
  7. Chatbots: Unsafe at Any Speed
  8. AI Safety Is a Category Error
  9. Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold
  10. They Don’t Need to Fire You
  11. The Hard Conversation About Compensation:
  12. Fellowship at Harvard Law School
  13. Another Scary Microsoft Lawyers Incident or Don’t be on the Wrong Side of Antitrust
  14. The Physics of Misunderstanding: When “Gaze” Almost Cost Me My Career
  15. Scary Microsoft Lawyers – Part 1
  16. The Time I Asked My Boss: Are You An Idiot?
  17. Fixing the Windows Syntax Boof-a-Rama
  18. Product Market Fit is Math
  19. Resource Allocation – A Clarification
  20. Welcome to the Room

2025 7

  1. The AI Finance Golem
  2. The Cmdlet Decision: When to Be Weird
  3. AI as an Awesome Teammate
  4. AI Ages Like Fresh Fish: The Brutal Economics of Technological Deflation
  5. Getting the AI Hype Cycle Right
  6. AI Bubble? : AI Skeptics Hard Look at the Value Equation
  7. AI Underpants Gnomes: The Missing Step in Your Strategy

2017 1

  1. Resource Allocation: Race or Rate?

2014 2

  1. Working with Microsoft
  2. DevOps Days Talk

2013 4

  1. Identifying Problems
  2. Write-Host Considered Harmful
  3. Variable Scopes and $PRIVATE:
  4. Evolution of a Script: Timing Operations

2012 1

  1. On Heroes

2011 8

  1. Focus on Reality
  2. Iranian Drone Hack and Technical Debt
  3. Days Till Xmas
  4. On Rumors
  5. Changing Datacenters, Changing IT
  6. On Becoming a Senior Technical Individual Contributor
  7. Monad Manifesto
  8. Awesome content coming shortly!