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76 from 9 Dec 2025 to 28 Sep 2026
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2026 6

  1. When Agents Decide
  2. Advisory Role Changes (Nubank, Cognitum One) and the “Slopreneur”
  3. Medium, Markdown and Dev.to
  4. You all needed to read Output to Outcome eight months ago…
  5. How reliable, fast and expensive is each version of Claude Code (Sonnet, Opus 4.8-fast,
  6. Entering NoMan’s Land

2025 4

  1. Advent(ure) in Systems Seeing — Days 11 and 12 — Sketch a Situation — Justifying a Performance Team
  2. Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Day 10 — Org Charts
  3. Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Days 8 and 9
  4. Advent(ure) in Systems Seeing — Day 6 — Donella Meadows on Causal Loops

Undated 66

  1. Advent ure in systems seeing days 11 and 12 sketch a situation justifying a performance team 8922c4eb1580
  2. Advent ure in system seeing day 10 org charts 1cc6d1f69f5a
  3. Advent ure in system seeing days 8 and 9 ff9c929b4c63
  4. Advent ure in systems seeing day 6 donella meadows on causal loops 44443a445b2b
  5. Medium markdown and dev to 3a43513436cf
  6. The 10gbit network seems to be a bottleneck what happens if you run pod to pod on the same node 442e228015c8
  7. Enhanced headroom plot in r 9273ffdf163a
  8. Aws re invent 2020 talks related to sustainability d241fe18b6ba
  9. The day that i gave the founder of tesla a ride in my lotus elise in return for a ride in his 4060dc6e1f0b
  10. Why i support the iatse strike e0ac8ef71823
  11. Map camp 2021 links to my maps from the green economy session with carlota perez and andra sonea 2fa62401fdc8
  12. Trends and topics for 2022 93913f12e45
  13. What adrian did next retire 3cb529229646
  14. What adrian did next part 1 starting out e256e04db50d
  15. What adrian did next part 2 sun microsystems c1a512c8284
  16. What adrian did next joined orionx to do some analyst and advisory work 843c86cbdd17
  17. What adrian did next 2022 conference appearances 672710583c80
  18. Adrians recipe for gluten and dairy free boozy fruit cake 6e5c5ef5053f
  19. Supercomputing predictions custom cpus cxl3 0 and petalith architectures b67cc324588f
  20. What adrian did next part 3 ebay 2004 to 2007 90e313fe5a08
  21. Thanks eugene i agree trimmed mean is better than mean or median but it still throws away too 30729ba3aef7
  22. Percentiles dont work analyzing the distribution of response times for web services ace36a6a2a19
  23. Sustainability at aws re invent 2022 all the talks and videos i could find d0a19a0a1b86
  24. Platform engineering teams done right b3b3d4a8ad23
  25. Dont follow the sun scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter productive b0cde6681763
  26. Proposal for a realtime carbon footprint standard 60b71c269948
  27. Analyst content at me dm 2bcaf50e759b
  28. Experiences renting electric cars from hertz c662d28d55cc
  29. Its hard for 100 people to cooperate together to build a monolith but if you had 10 teams of 10 1e8d3d94809a
  30. So many bad takes what is there to learn from the prime video microservices to monolith story 4bd0970423d4
  31. What i learned at gluecon 2023 tipping points and generative ai 898cd5219040
  32. Rapid development in r with lots of help from chatgpt 322aedf559ad
  33. Amazon 2022 sustainability report 18 aws regions are 100 renewable 6748efa82b6b
  34. Measuring carbon is not enough unintended consequences 80dccef0d8c5
  35. I found this recent book on brain research related to dreaming to be useful insight a6c5145d66a4
  36. Sustainability talks and updates from aws re invent 2023 969100c46a6a
  37. Signs that its time to leave a company 5f8759ad018e
  38. Directing ai native development 0914ac271744
  39. Yes this is working well for me 155873c73baa
  40. Latest news from coinbase layoffs and one person product teams 9f30d103fe8a
  41. Risc v the cpu you didnt know you already have ff2f385f7ec6
  42. Will aws have anything new to say about sustainability at re invent 2024 f54a8e2d5177
  43. Virtual adrian revisited as megpt 5db561ef77b4
  44. Fireside chat with my persona at soopra 2 0 launch c092678453b1
  45. The internet is down it was dns again e86341db21d5
  46. Turning my mcp content into a blog post on platform engineering 7f083ba1e78b
  47. Aws could setup multiple internal dns paths to dynamodb and change their ddb client libraries to 930a278f7d09
  48. The problem as far as i can tell from the description wasnt that the dns service went down or that 6ec8dd032486
  49. I think an ex developer or manager product manager skillset at present you need to understand 6df38a8923ae
  50. Vibe coding is so last month my first agent swarm experience with claude flow 414b0bd6f2f2
  51. Ive started to assemble the parts to build an experimental benchmark setup that i can use to 3ff86e5decc6
  52. The base behavior of the agent tools is getting better over time but i also want to build in some dbf3740e828a
  53. A further thought on this topic 45937f2c7971
  54. Why we need a purpose driven agent based developer management platform f040869b291e
  55. Advent ure in system seeing day 5 key systems concept feedback f30109c65a23
  56. Advent ure in system seeing day 4 2888c021892d
  57. Advent ure in system seeing day 2 daaad9c7678b
  58. Pourpoise in practice the brazil bench organization and my first purpose oriented agent workflows 335b12822491
  59. Advent ure in system seeing day 1 bbdea04f892e
  60. How reliable fast and expensive is each version of claude code sonnet through opus 4 8 fast 272d74ffc869
  61. You all needed to read output to outcome eight months ago 9b86c8cf6e36
  62. Advisory role changes nubank cognitum one and the slopreneur e55d0f44d2f2
  63. What adrian did next part 4 how i helped netflix launch on ipad and iphone 2007 to 2010 cbf4913aa4cc
  64. Deep dive into nvidia blackwell benchmarks where does the 4x training and 30x inference 0209f1971e71
  65. Entering nomans land 4095c21d9765
  66. Looking forward to returning to multicore world new zealand february 2025 fa9cac2db45d