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• The Tech Interview Playbook — Coding, System Design, and Behavioral

  A tech interview tests your skill — and is a separate skill of its own. Pattern-based coding prep, a 5-step system design frame, building a STAR story bank for behavioral rounds, the staple questions per role, and an 8-w

  2026-07-06 · 7 min read #career#interview#skills#preparation

• How to Study with AI — 8 Techniques That Turn an LLM into Your Best Tutor

  If you just read the answers AI gives you, you get the feeling of studying without the skill. This piece shows how to recreate the power of 1:1 tutoring that Bloom's 2 sigma problem revealed — a Socratic tutor, Feynman r

  2026-07-06 · 8 min read #ai#learning#study#productivity

• A Knowledge Map for the Rising Tech Roles of 2026 — What to Actually Study

  AI/LLM engineer, platform/DevOps/SRE, security engineer, data engineer, frontend — a checklist-style map of what the five most in-demand roles actually require. Includes the cross-cutting skills every role shares, plus t

  2026-07-06 · 7 min read #career#roadmap#skills#learning

• The Law of Compounding — The Strongest Force in Learning and Life

  Compounding is what happens when returns start earning returns of their own. The principle does not stay confined to money. It works the same way in learning, skill, reputation, and relationships. This essay looks calmly

  2026-07-05 · 13 min read #learning#compounding#habits#self-improvement

• Thinking Tools for Reading the World — Mental Models

  Mental models are thinking frameworks that help us reason about a complex world by simplifying it. This essay walks calmly through Charlie Munger's latticework of models, first-principles thinking, high-leverage models l

  2026-07-05 · 15 min read #thinking#mental-models#decision-making#first-principles

• Learning from Mistakes — Resilience and Antifragility

  Mistakes feel like verdicts, but they are closer to data. This essay looks at the difference between fragile, resilient, and antifragile responses to disorder, at the blameless post-mortem that engineering culture invent

  2026-07-05 · 16 min read #learning#resilience#antifragility#failure

• Good Questions Make Good Answers — The Art of Asking

  In an age when answers are everywhere, the truly scarce skill is asking a good question. This essay walks calmly through the Socratic method, first-principles thinking, Toyota's Five Whys, a taxonomy of questions, the co

  2026-07-05 · 15 min read #learning#curiosity#critical-thinking#questions

• Lifelong Learners — The Attitudes of Great Students

  A balanced look at the attitudes and habits shared by people who never stop learning — deep curiosity, the willingness to be a beginner, teaching as a way to learn, intellectual honesty, and patient humility. It opens wi

  2026-07-05 · 14 min read #learning#curiosity#self-improvement#lifelong-learning

• How the World Works — Incentives and Systems

  Events that look irrational usually make sense once you see the incentives. This essay walks through incentives, Goodhart's law, systems thinking, feedback loops, second- and third-order effects, power laws, emergence, a

  2026-07-05 · 19 min read #thinking#systems-thinking#incentives#mental-models

• Are Geniuses Born? — The Myth of Talent and Effort

  We call remarkable people geniuses, and in that moment we stop asking how they got there. This essay looks calmly at the Mozart myth, Anders Ericsson's research on expert performance, the popular ten-thousand-hour rule,

  2026-07-05 · 16 min read #learning#talent#expertise#excellence

• Where Education Is Going — The Past and Future of Learning

  The school we take for granted today is really an invention of the industrial age. From the origins of mass schooling to the great democratizations of knowledge — the printing press, public libraries, the internet and MO

  2026-07-05 · 18 min read #education#future-of-learning#self-directed-learning#edtech

• Learning How to Learn — The Science of Study

  The skill of learning something can itself be learned. This essay walks through active recall, spaced repetition, interleaving, the fluency illusion, elaboration, metacognition, and the role of sleep in memory consolidat

  2026-07-05 · 15 min read #learning#metacognition#study-skills#education

• Reading Deeply, Thinking Slowly — The Craft of Reflection

  In an age of endless skimming, we are slowly losing the habit of reading deeply. This essay looks calmly at the difference between shallow and deep reading, what the internet did to our attention, the arts of active and

  2026-07-05 · 17 min read #learning#reading#reflection#attention

• What Makes Palantir Different — The Real Moat Is the Ontology, Not the AI

  You keep hearing the name Palantir, but what the company actually does stays blurry. This piece lays out the Gotham/Foundry/AIP/Apollo product line and argues that Palantir's real edge is not flashy AI but the ontology —

  2026-07-05 · 7 min read #palantir#data#ai#enterprise

• Reading htop and top — How to Decode Every Number

  Open htop or top on Linux and a flood of numbers pours out. The difference between VIRT, RES, and SHR; the process state letters; why load average is not CPU usage; what the meter colors mean; and zombie processes — this

  2026-07-05 · 7 min read #linux#performance#htop#sysadmin

• The Picture of Dorian Gray — The Unaging Face and the Rotting Soul

  An introduction to Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Through its central premise — a face that never ages while a hidden portrait rots in its place — the essay looks calmly at beauty, pleasure, consci

  2026-07-04 · 13 min read #literature#wilde#aestheticism#morality#classic-review

• Frankenstein — On the Responsibility of the Creator

  A modern myth written by a young author during the year without a summer. Through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we explore the ethics of creation and responsibility, the voice of the nameless creature, the Romantic sublime

  2026-07-04 · 15 min read #literature#mary-shelley#gothic#science-fiction#classic-review

• The Tale of Genji — Perhaps the World's First Novel

  A thousand years ago, a woman at the Japanese court wrote a long, intricate story about a prince, the women around him, and the sorrow of passing time. Through Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji, we explore what may

  2026-07-04 · 18 min read #literature#murasaki-shikibu#japanese-classic#heian#classic-review

• To Kill a Mockingbird — Justice and Prejudice Through a Child's Eyes

  A calm re-reading of Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Through the eyes of young Scout in a small Depression-era Alabama town, we follow the trial of Tom Robinson, the quiet conscience of her father Atticus,

  2026-07-04 · 13 min read #literature#harper-lee#racial-justice#coming-of-age#classic-review

• The Odyssey — The Oldest Story of the Journey Home

  A calm, balanced introduction to Homer's Odyssey for general readers. We look at the poet and the oral tradition behind the poem, the theme of homecoming after the Trojan War, Odysseus as the man of many turns, the great

  2026-07-04 · 18 min read #literature#homer#epic#greek-mythology#classic-review