PinnedNot All Open Source Is Created EqualA lot of confusion seems to be surrounding the term “open-source” these days. The CEO of Hashicorp went as far as to predict “OSS-free…Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023
Formal reasoning in LLMsThis is my naive take after seeing this tweet by Linus who works on AI at Notion. It got me thinking, I stated typing a response, and it…Aug 4Aug 4
The missing Terraform VMTerraform is unique among other languages in that in addition to the configuration language itself, there is also a thing called state that…Dec 20, 20231Dec 20, 20231
Remote is the new glass ceilingWe have a new norm, there’s no doubt about that. Most knowledge work will soon be done from home. But there is a catch. I believe remote is…Jan 10, 20221Jan 10, 20221
Condensed startup adviceI am a startup founder and worked in startups most of my career. Here’s the advice that helped me most so far, compressed into one post…Jul 24, 2021Jul 24, 2021
Where I'm coming fromI have always thought of my childhood as fairly typical if not dull. But it recently dawned onto me that it was in fact quite fascinating.Jun 8, 2021Jun 8, 2021
The missing cloud layerWe went from complex to simple to complex again. Before AWS there were lots of pieces of hardware, so lots of “glue” that was hard to…May 17, 2021May 17, 2021
Startups are a lot like snowboardingI love snowboarding, especially freestyle. And I love startups. For a while I was wondering, why is that? Is it just about risk, or is…May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
A better way to build on AWSSo AWS gives startups $100k in free credits. Google and Azure have similar programs for startups. Then why isn’t every startup CTO…Dec 8, 20201Dec 8, 20201
What you don’t do compounds tooStartup pop culture has it totally wrong about launching a product. Most of early stage should have little to do with building. It is the…Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020