Notes

Two halves of the same notebook. Filter by what you came for.

What professions are in the safety zone?

If I had a son picking a university, here's what I'd point him toward — jobs AI will barely shift.

Psychology

3 years of tracking personal financies

For the last three years, I've been tracking my income and expenses month by month

Finance

Train 11.5. Race 10.

My watch under-measured the distance and accidentally taught me something engineers already have a name for.

PsychologyEngineeringSport

Your previous version is the competitor worth having

You compare your whole life with someone else's best thirty seconds.

Psychology

Paying more to stay where you are

A Black Mirror episode about a subscription, and why it felt uncomfortably close to my own bills.

Psychology

Why I run

Not about pace or calories — about the moment your brain tells you to stop and you don't.

SportPsychology

Learning grows with immersion, not information

Three tiers of learning, and why the amount of content you consume is the wrong thing to measure.

Psychology

Sometimes the best fix is removing the complex thing

A memory problem in a Go + cgo + GStreamer pipeline, and a fix that consisted of not having the pipeline.

Engineering

I miss the bug that took all night

Debugging used to end in a particular kind of joy. Lately it ends in a prompt.

Engineering

The statistic that changed how I think about careers

Two things people underestimate at the same time — and what the income distribution looks like when you put them side by side.

Finance

Knowledge used to be built out of disagreement

Millions of people now ask the same systems the same questions — and get remarkably similar answers.

Psychology

Expertise, or the feeling of it

The Dunning–Kruger effect, and the question of which direction AI actually pushes people.

PsychologyEngineering