Boulder Blockchain Meetup
I went to the Boulder Blockchain Meetup a few days ago. It was fascinating. The entire room was full to standing, and they went around and asked everyone to do a quick intro. Then we separated into...
View ArticleBlast from the past: 5 worlds
5 Worlds is a Joel Spolsky classic. This article needs to be updated (it’s from 2002, when shrinkwrap software was still A Thing) but it still has a lot of wisdom and illustrates just how large the...
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A day in the life of Americans
How do we spend our time? Well, there are a number of surveys that track this, among them the American Time Use Survey. A few years ago someone took that survey data and made it live. Above is a screen...
View ArticleDeeply problematic but practical advice
This post from Charity, who I believe I first started following when she presented at a gluecon about parse, is excellent and speaks to some of the strategies she’s used to succeed in technology. If...
View ArticleA follow up to “Deeply problematic but practical advice”
I linked to the first article Charity wrote, and wanted to link to her follow on piece/”post mortem”. (In technical terms, a post mortem is an examination of a problem or system failure in hopes of...
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Book Review: Working With Coders
Software is so integral to business processes and relatively inexpensive compared to labor that I believe every company is going to be a custom software company, in the same way that every company is...
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Blockchain now in the trough of disillusionment?
Looks like the blockchain may be headed into the trough of disillusionment. See also Kevin Owocki’s thoughts on ICOs. This happens to every technology. There is wild optimism over the usefulness...
View ArticleConference on World Affairs
The Conference on World Affairs is happening this week on the CU campus. It’s a great way to get exposure to a wide variety of viewpoints and topics, all for free.
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Workers in the Gig Economy Have Tremendous Autonomy
This essay by Bill Gurley, “The Thing I Love Most About Uber”, is well worth reading. In it he discusses the insane level of flexibility working for Uber (or, though he doesn’t state it, Lyft) gives...
View ArticleLLM training data, or, a broken virtuous cycle
Have you used ChatGPT? I have and it’s amazing. From the whimsical (I asked it to write a sonnet about SAML and OIDC) to the helpful (I asked for an example of a script with async calls using...
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