Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
A discussion of discussions on AI bias
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident
Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle
Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
In defense of simple architectures
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
Misidentifying talent
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
Cocktail party ideas
The container throttling problem
Some thoughts on writing
Some latency measurement pitfalls
Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
Individuals matter
Culture matters
Willingness to look stupid
What to learn
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
The value of in-house expertise
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
Against essential and accidental complexity
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
Finding the Story
A simple way to get more value from tracing
A simple way to get more value from metrics
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
The growth of command line options, 1979-Present
Suspicious discontinuities
95%-ile isn't that good
Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice
Files are fraught with peril
