ChatGPT isn’t profound, but it’s impact will be. A fun, but less covered type of bias is Anthropomorphic Bias. Anthropomorphic bias is the tendency to ascribe humanlike characteristics to things ...

Precision matters. Semantics matter. A rich vocabulary allows us to communicate concisely. In software, deprecation means that a particular feature, API, or offering is discouraged from being use...

The single most important thing you can do to increase your output is to manage the external world’s input Organization doesn’t come naturally to me. It never has. It’s something I have to consci...

As with all things in life, keep the 80/20 rule in mind As a child, I was a voracious reader and it served me well. I’ll confess that as an adult I read much less. As I get more experienced, less...

There’s no such thing as built to last. Built to last is built to repair I’m sure by now you’ve seen something about the Right to Repair movement. Be it Apple or John Deere, Tesla or BMW, mega co...

Some prefer the carrot, others the stick. I prefer to wield the carrot as a stick Humans are fundamentally lazy and self servingly work avoidant. You intuitively know this to be the case as a sof...

Cannot connect to PostgreSQL database That was the innocuous title of one of the most bizarre service incidents I’ve ever worked on. It took nearly a dozen teams to track down the root cause and ...