Blog Archive

My attempt at creating an autonomous data science agent for tabular datasets, lessons learned, and how AI agents can be used to help data science workflows.

Not a novel I expected to have a profound impact on my life, but it did.

How high-level predators like Jeffrey Epstein recruit 'Agents' through the intentional use of red flags. By forcing targets to overlook depravity for opportunity, predators strip away moral protection, leaving them isolated, compromised, and hyper-loyal.

Game theory is a mathematical framework for analyzing decision-making. It is the gateway to super-rationality. It's used in a wide range of fields, from economics and political science to biology and psychology.

The dark CRM pipeline behind host clubs, education, VC, consulting, and government: how industries use emotional manipulation and debt traps to turn customers into indentured workers. Learn the 7-step funnel that exploits sunk cost and social reciprocity.

A brutal reflection on a year of non-linear outputs, platform risk, and the shift from Investor to Operator mindset.

A comprehensive onboarding questionnaire for founders and business owners. Covers founder objectives, experience, business operations, tech stack, market dynamics, human capital, and investor perspectives.

Why NVLink -- not GPUs alone -- is NVIDIA's moat in AI and high-performance computing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 dynamics. Business is so IZI. You know? You know!

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.

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.

A universal framework and AI metaprompt for building applications from idea to scale. Includes cheatsheets, interview processes, and architecture blueprints for AI-assisted development.

Teaching AI coding assistants about giant projects without hitting context limits. Reframing from a prompt problem to a knowledge encapsulation problem through declarative contracts.

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.

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.

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.

Deplatformed by Linkedin after 12M views and 10 years of building.

It's real estate. Examining the accounting gimmick of the century: how houses became the only capital good exempted from depreciation, creating budget holes that require infinite money printing.

Challenging the 'marketing' theory. Could carbonated drinks actually be cheaper due to distribution efficiency? Exploring how pressurized containers might explain the price paradox.

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.

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.

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.

Understanding the difference between limited and unlimited objectives. Recognizing when negotiation is futile and when your opponent simply wants more, not resolution.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that equates busyness with productivity. Examining how consumption masquerades as production in information, education, compliance, and opportunities.

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.

Examining why conformists have consistently outnumbered independent thinkers throughout history, and whether there's an evolutionary advantage to following the crowd.

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.

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.

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.

Exploring the structural reasons why deviants inevitably face opposition, and why true independent thinking requires complete detachment from status consciousness.

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.

Why the best composers don't make everyone play all the time. A reflection on how idling and emptiness are essential for effective outcomes, not just in music, but in business and life.

Five tell-tale signs of poor leadership: from speculating on stocks to making bad offers. Patterns observed over 10 years that consistently predict worse company performance.