In this blog post, I explore a variety of fascinating topics, from tech compensation models and home heating simulations to the impact of AI in the industry and tips for staying current with tech trends. I also delve into thought-provoking subjects like lucid dreaming, productivity philosophies, and memory improvement strategies. Plus, as a special touch, there’s some music and travel advice thrown in for good measure!
- Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation Revisited: Why does a similar position have 2-4x compensation differences, in the same market? A closer look at the trimodal model I published in 2021. More data, and new observations.
- Modeling Home Heating Systems With Circuit Simulation Software: Electricity flow is generally invisible, silent, and not something that most humans want to touch, so understanding how charge moves around can be fairly unintuitive at first. There are plenty of a…
- MemoryCache in C#: A Practical Guide: What is MemoryCache? When should we use it? When to prefer distributed caching? How to integrate caching into your code without boilerplate and without making it too brittle? This Practical Guide answers all these questions.
- AI and NET: Introducing the official OpenAI library for .NET Developers: In our latest online community standup, we explore the new OpenAI .NET library, share practical demos, and provide essential resources to add AI your .NET development projects.
- Spending too much time optimizing for loops: This is part of a series of blog posts relating my experience pushing the performance of programming language interpreters written in Rust.
- How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry: Amazon has replicated an antitrust-avoidance playbook pioneered by Microsoft with its hiring of most of the team behind buzzy AI startup Adept.
- Living In A Lucid Dream: Recent research on lucid dreams suggests that consciousness exists along a spectrum between sleep and waking, between hallucination and revelation, between dreams and reality.
- Recognizing When It’s Time to Pivot.: This week’s topic: Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Understanding when to pivot can save you from stress in the long run.
- Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator: As someone who has used a static site generator every day at work for years I am on the threshold of believing “actually just writing HTML by hand is probably easier” This becomes obvious when you eg get a new work machine and need to set up the site generator on the new machine and…
- The new Riven remake is even better than Myst: The original developers revised puzzles and realized the immersive world in 3D.
- Prediction Markets Suggest Replacing Biden: The last week hasn’t been great for the Democratic Party.
- How writing a letter to your future self can help you set—and achieve—long-term goals, experts say: Want to start thinking more long term? Try writing a letter to your future self, futurist Ari Wallach recently said on an episode of “Masters of Scale.”
- Productivity Versus Alignment: One of the many trade-offs companies face
- How to keep up with tech trends and upskill sustainably: Perpetual waves of new tech on the scene can mean a continual learning process for engineers. How can you craft a learning plan to stay on top of it all?
- A New Philosophy of Productivity: The problem is not with productivity in a general sense, but instead with a specific faulty definition that has taken hold in recent decades. Here’s what should replace it.
- New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Improve Your Memory: Want to improve your memory? Here are the biggest memory problems and a Harvard professor’s tips on how to address them…
- Knowledge Series #39 – How do development environments work?: Everything you need to know with real world examples from Slack, Spotify and more
- Careful technology: Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An example: I think this is a false position. But if this kind of sentiment is so often repeated, its worth thinking about why it feels true.
- Explore Your Mind: Lumenate are a Bristol start-up here to make impactful, psychedelic, subconscious exploration more accessible than ever through groundbreaking technology.
- 40 Saddest Albums of All Time: The saddest albums are the perfect companion when you’re feeling heartbroken, sorrowful, pessimistic, or blue.
- Obvious travel advice: Not entirely about food
- Welcome to the brand new rules of advertising: The recent Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity embodied the dawn of a new era for marketing. Here are the four new rules of brand-building and business growth.