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Closing the Loop

Claude Code: The Garage Band Revolution for Software Development is Coming

Hawking Edison Meet Claude!

Your Next Focus Group May Not Be Human: Scalable Research With Hawking Edison

Let me tell you about the quiet revolution happening in American finance

Chaos Engineering: The Evolution from Netflix's Chaos Monkey to AI-Powered Resilience

The Complete DynamoDB Architecture: From Microseconds to Multi-Region

The Geography of Grace: A Journey Through Four Faiths and the Question of Hell

Decisions Matter: Startup Cap Tables for Smart People (or Dummies)

So You Want to Raise Capital: Pre-Seed Cap Tables for Semi-Dummies

Are You a Manager or a Leader?

How I Failed at Learning to Stop Giving a F*ck and Love the Contradiction: A Leadership Guide for Recovering Overachievers

Load Shedding: When Your API Needs an Emergency Brake

The Speed of Trust: Cutting Latency for Inbound API Calls

Promotions, Mechanisms, and Managers: What Amazon Got Right — and What Broke

Mechanisms, Not Miracles: What AWS Ops Reviews Taught Me About Engineering Leadership

The Night DNS Died: A Pager Tale About File Descriptors, Runaway Logs, and Debugging in the Dark

The Ten Things You Just Looked At: Designing for Amazon Scale

Earns Trust: The Quiet Edge in the Amazon Interview Room

Charlie’s Law: The DynamoDB Doctrine and the Engineering Cost of Infinite Scale

Mechanisms, Not Miracles: How Amazon Builds Teams That Don’t Need Babysitting

Invite your friends to learn about software engineering and entrepreneurship

Simulating Society: Monte Carlo Simulations with LLM Agents

On the Record: AI, Law, and the Indeterminacy of Intelligence

Multi-cloud Is Inevitable