Clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels now in every part of the world. Only fossilized ideas, ossified politicians, and blind, profit-driven corporations are keeping us from moving forward.

"Writing is an effective means of improving thinking skills hence one must process ideas in order to write an explanation" ~ William Zinsser

It's better to take a few days to refactor a big pile of spaghetti than to keep accumulating technical debt and sink your codebase to unbearable state

"Can you argue against your position better than your best critics? If not, you haven’t earned your opinion." fs.blog/the-work-req...

The Work Required to Have an Opinion

We all hold an opinion about almost everything, but how many of us do the work required to back up that opinion? Not many...

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Only time will decide if AI will remain a valuable asset/tool, as Lindy’s law says: a theory positing that something’s future life expectancy is in proportion to its current age. The longer something lasts, the longer it’ll continue.

My favorite quote from this article: "At the workplace, I usually owe you the short one (document) because there’s one of me and many of you. Compression, editing, and fact-checking are the work." terriblesoftware.org/2026/06/17/y...

You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.

AI made you faster. But you’re not more productive; you’re outsourcing the slow part to everyone else

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Each time you entrust an LLM with writing something for you (be it a post, a blog, an essay or a report), you are missing the opportunity to express yourself, to practice active thinking and to improve your skills as an engineer

"So nature and nurture combine to make us avoid self-indulgence. But the world has gotten more complicated: the most dangerous traps now are new behaviors that bypass our alarms about self-indulgence by mimicking more virtuous types. And the worst thing is, they're not even fun."

"If no one else has ever successfully built your system with the schedule, budget, and functionality you asked for, please explain why your organization thinks it can." spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing

Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

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