Hey there! In my latest blog post, I share some insightful reads including: discovering “The Most Important Question of Your Life,” nailing fantasy football drafts, simulating the 2024 CFB season, college football predictions, and tips for successful one-on-one meetings. I also delve into building with purpose, the priorities of a great engineering leader, and more. Enjoy the insights and happy reading!
- The Most Important Question of Your Life: The most important question you will ever ask yourself might surprise you. Find out what it is here.
- Winning Fantasy Football with Projections, Value Over Replacement, and Value-Based Drafting: Draft day in fantasy football is all about making informed decisions and a successful season depends on accurate player projections and a strategic approach. Building a great fantasy roster often[…]
- Simulating the 2024 CFB Season: Power 4: 1000 simulations, so many possibilities!
- College Football Predictions: Our Model’s Playoff Favorites: Data-driven storytelling.
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- Building with purpose: Discover the role of a frugal architect in aligning tech with business goals. Learn the importance of KPIs and business outcomes. Build with purpose!
- One on One Meeting Format Ideas: Here is the way I conduct 1:1 meetings with people in my engineering team. I’ll go over the objective, schedule but also the content and give some feedback about using this particular format for the past few years.
- Priorities Of A Great Engineering Leader: Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to be the E2E owner of your domain. Your domain has clients, partners and counterparts (e.g. dependent domains or ones you depend on), stakeholders and…
- The Myth of the First 90 Days: The “first 90 days” strategy, popularized by Michael D. Watkins in his book The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, has long been considered the gold standard…
- No “Hello”, No “Quick Call”, and no Meetings Without an Agenda: When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it’s tempting to “quickly” ask someone for support when you get stuck.
- Python’s Preprocessor: Every now and then you hear outrageous claims such as “Python has no preprocessor”.
- Self-hosting DNS: My journey of DNS, including self-hosting with Pi-hole and AdGuard Home, using paid services like NextDNS and AdGuard DNS, and public privacy-respecting resolvers.
- How to build a query language in Python: In this guide, I walk through how to build a query language in Python. No required knowledge of query languages is required to follow this guide. You will find this article easier to understand if you have some knowledge of trees.
- Prototyping Products with Generative AI: Introduction Generative AI is a game-changing technology that helps you realize your ideas. Whatever skills you might lack to take your product idea to a …
- How does Michelin Guide’s business work?: The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand’s iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.