Blog Archive
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2025
November
5 posts
NVLink is NVIDIA's Real Monopoly
Why NVLink -- not GPUs alone -- is NVIDIA's moat in AI and high-performance computing.
20 Agentic Design Patterns (Part 4)
A comprehensive guide to 20 agentic design patterns that separate pros from beginners, based on a Google engineer's 400-page book. Practical patterns you can use today with plain English explanations.
20 Agentic Design Patterns (Part 3)
A comprehensive guide to 20 agentic design patterns that separate pros from beginners, based on a Google engineer's 400-page book. Practical patterns you can use today with plain English explanations.
20 Agentic Design Patterns (Part 2)
A comprehensive guide to 20 agentic design patterns that separate pros from beginners, based on a Google engineer's 400-page book. Practical patterns you can use today with plain English explanations.
20 Agentic Design Patterns (Part 1)
A comprehensive guide to 20 agentic design patterns that separate pros from beginners, based on a Google engineer's 400-page book. Practical patterns you can use today with plain English explanations.
2025
October
8 posts
Rules of power: being randomly unfair
Fair leaders are respected, but randomly unfair leaders command fear and hope. This political science theory governs everything from your boss to the stock market.
10/23/2025
CLOSE YOUR DAMN TABS
Why people with 50 chrome tabs opened are never to be trusted. The science of open loops, decision paralysis, and why 60-year-old virgins on yachts are still miserable.
Asian Corporate Culture in a Nutshell
Asian corporate dynamics. Business is so IZI. You know? You know!
How to Migrate Features Between Repos Using Google's Web Crawling Strategy
A zero-config tool that maps your repository structure like Google crawls websites. No dependencies, just drop this script in your project and get AI-ready context for feature migrations.
The Blood Tax - When Unfunded Debts Demand a Human Price
When fiscal illusions stretch past their limits, we settle them with blood. Examining how unsound money and unfunded pensions manifest as premature death, abstention from birth, and war.
10/15/2025
System Design Cheatsheet & Metaprompt for AI-Assisted Software Development
A universal framework and AI metaprompt for building applications from idea to scale. Includes cheatsheets, interview processes, and architecture blueprints for AI-assisted development.
How to migrate large projects with AI without context rot
Teaching AI coding assistants about giant projects without hitting context limits. Reframing from a prompt problem to a knowledge encapsulation problem through declarative contracts.
Status as economic catalyst
How social status functions as a chemical catalyst in economics by reducing verification costs. Understanding when the pursuit of status creates value versus when it becomes wasteful.
2025
September
3 posts
Rituals seems unavoidable
Why we dedicate 30-40% of our resources to seemingly wasteful rituals. Examining the 'belief tax' as the price we pay for trust, leveraged action, and filtering mechanism for ideas.
No one cares about you (nor should you care about them)
Why 0.01% of creators get 99.9% of views, why chasing attention is a noob trap, and why blogs outlast tweets. Stop chasing audiences and build something good enough.
I got 12M views, then got permabanned
Deplatformed by Linkedin after 12M views and 10 years of building.
2025
May
1 post
2025
April
2 posts
Why is soft drink cheaper than water?
Challenging the 'marketing' theory. Could carbonated drinks actually be cheaper due to distribution efficiency? Exploring how pressurized containers might explain the price paradox.
Post Gen Z can't retire until this changes
Why working harder and paying more taxes won't make you rich. Examining wealth inequality, lack of opportunities, and future senior poverty through the lens of invisible social parasites.
2025
March
4 posts
AI prompt I use for trauma dump
A GPT prompt for uncovering the masks you're wearing and the stories you're telling yourself. Use at your own risk - tough love is welcome.
We can't all get rich off compound interest
Exposing the illusion of financial freedom through passive income. The system only works if the working class continues to toil, and we can't all be on the receiving end of compound interest.
When not to negotiate
Understanding the difference between limited and unlimited objectives. Recognizing when negotiation is futile and when your opponent simply wants more, not resolution.
Illusion of productivity
Challenging the conventional wisdom that equates busyness with productivity. Examining how consumption masquerades as production in information, education, compliance, and opportunities.
2025
February
4 posts
Natural language is software
How English, Chinese, and Japanese evolved to solve the same abstraction problems that plague software developers today. Natural languages predict the challenges of our codebases.
Is conformism a viable survival strategy?
Examining why conformists have consistently outnumbered independent thinkers throughout history, and whether there's an evolutionary advantage to following the crowd.
How to steal from the public without public attention
Discovering the anatomy of institutional heists through the lens of 'opportunity stealing heroes' - from central banks to HR departments, examining systems that create wealth gaps while enjoying positive public opinion.
2/19/2025
The real function of taxes
In modern finance, taxes are paid so inflation does not happen. Exploring why governments collect taxes despite the enormous compliance costs, and what really happens when they don't.
2025
January
3 posts
We can't afford job security
There is no such thing as job security without taking away freedom from future generations. Understanding government budgets reveals why the illusion of secure white-collar jobs comes at a cost.
Why independent people invite troubles
Exploring the structural reasons why deviants inevitably face opposition, and why true independent thinking requires complete detachment from status consciousness.
How to test your recruiting strategy
A simple experiment to test if your recruiters are doing their job: create fictional profiles with ideal resumes and see if they make it past the phone screen.
1/3/2025
2024
December
1 post