Business
History Does Not Predict the Future
History is far less useful than many assume. It creates the illusion of predictability only once outcomes are already known.
Growth Mindset
10 Choices for a Better Future No Matter What Happens
I’m not a fan of traditional New Years Resolutions, as I wrote about here, but as we started 2026 I wanted to think even a bit more differently about the problem of improvement. First, I don’t think anyone can know Read more
Artificial Intelligence
The Human Blind Spot Around Non-Deterministic Machines
Why LLM’s will always make mistakes and we shouldn’t call them hallucinations I saw a tweet from Paul Graham a while back about how as LLMs become better their hallucinations will become more convincing. And it makes sense, a smart Read more
Artificial Intelligence
Building a Simple Game or Why AI is the Future of Software Development
I’ve been using GitHub Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT to help me code for a couple of years now. But AI has always been in the assistant role – I was the one in the driver’s seat, asking technical questions or Read more
C#
YamlDotNet, Interfaces, Lists, and Classes
Approach to cleanly handle YAML configuration in a .NET application, expressing a preference for cleaner formats than YAML, specifically mentioning issues with deserializing to interface-based structures using YamlDotNet. He encountered challenges deserializing a list of interface types but found solutions using custom deserializer and type converter classes to ensure proper YAML formatting. Additionally, the author highlights the value of creating a mapping class for flexibility in handling various interfaces and corresponding concrete implementations, making serialization and deserialization simpler.