Leadership
9 entries- Jan 11EssayWorld Machinesnewest The Kernel and the Ark
I. The Wall and the Infinite # It is possible that the history of the modern West hinges on a single, melancholic misreading of Voltaire. When Candide, exhausted by the Lisbon earthquake and the …
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- Jul 27Essay On Protocols, Wagons, and Associated Acrobatics
Years ago, maybe a decade even, I fell in love with this software called Scrivener. I could never justify buying it because I didn’t actually write. But having that software would represent a little …
3 min - Jul 22Essay My Road to Bayesian Stats
By 2015, I had heard of Bayesian Stats but didn’t bother to go deeper into it. After all, significance stars, and p-values worked fine. I started to explore Bayesian Statistics when considering small …
4 min - Jul 19Essay What do platforms really do?
In 1986, David S. Landes wrote the essay, ‘What Do Bosses Really Do?’. He argues that the historical role of the ‘boss’ was an essential function for organizing production and connecting producers to …
3 min - Jul 18Essay Hack, Hacky, Hacker
A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post. The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about …
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