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Book review of David Epstein’s Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Epstein’s central thesis in “Range” is bold and potentially disruptive to our ingrained beliefs about success. He argues that individuals who embrace diverse experiences and develop a broader range of skills outperform specialists in complex and unpredictable environments. This flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that champions early...
The tasks LLM's are good at, and the tasks they're sh**t at: a personal review
Here’s the story of how I became an LLM convert. LLM’s can be quite good at some tasks, and awful at others, and being able to create a clear distinction between the two modes is critical. This essay discusses the aras of opportunities of LLM’s for personal use, and how...
Book Review: Learning to Learn and the Navigation of Moods by Gloria P. Flores
In her book Learning to Learn psychologist and researcher Gloria Flores argues that the key to a mindset open, receptive to learning is to manage one’s ‘moods’. She argues that only by modifying the less-productive (for learning) moods towards more productive ones, does learning get easier.
A tale of the treacherous task of Kubernetes upgrade
A tale of unmitigated blast radius, in this essay I discuss how I broke one of our developer environments and our recovery attempts.
Infrastructure management: from chaos to Cloudformation CDK to confusion
Our team decided to use Amazon’s infrastructure-management tooling versus other available tooling a while back. We are now reconsidering the decision.
