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The 60% Effort Rule in the Age of AI
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The "Average" Problem: Why AGI is a Moving Goalpost
The pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) — a concept I learned about this week — is often framed as a climb toward a distant mountain peak. We define it broadly, as an AI that matches or exceeds the sum total of human capability—the abili...
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Stop Guessing, Start Measuring Your Git Repository
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Hacktoberfest 2025
Hacktoberfest 2025 just finished — and guess what? They brought back the swag!After last year’s digital-only celebration, seeing the return of t-shirts and tree-planting rewards brought a wave of nostalgia and motivation 😊 For some reason, I didn’t ...
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Optimizing MySQL Application Queries
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The Second Is Not the First to Lose
As I wrote my previous post on finding what you love, a recurring thought kept surfacing: “The second is the first to lose.” I’ve always hated that phrase. It’s the kind of idea that gets repeated until we stop questioning it. But I do. I question it...
Jul 6, 20253 min read
Find what you love.
This week, I received the same message three times. The Understandably newsletter reminded me of the speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford. Yes, that one, again. You can access it from the newsletter. Then, during a company meeting, the same theme was...
Jul 5, 20253 min read
We should turn off the lights more often.
It started like any other post-apocalyptic event, with no warning, no sign of what was about to happen. I was happily code-reviewing and debugging some fixes when the computer went off. Silence, not a whirl or beep to be heard. Stumped by the situati...
Apr 29, 20254 min read