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A collection of 17 droppings

we must pace the news cycle

i took out a yearly subscription to the information sometime in 2018. i had read a few pieces from the publication, and enjoyed the reporting. it was simultaneously well varied and in-depth. subscribing came with the promise of getting a front row seat to the machinations of an industry i

betting on orbit

i published a multipart post on threads earlier today and thought it would make for a good entry on the blog, given its length and what i believe to be something worth being able to point at later. i am taking liberties with my articulation here as i am no

to build is easy; to discern, divine

before november of last year, my usage of coding agents was minimal and quite utilitarian. my day to day work didn’t involve me actively writing code and that had been the case for about 3-ish years. there was the occasional need to roll up my sleeves to update niche

frozen responders

should large language models refer to themselves using first person pronouns? i just came across a tweet by uncle bob from 2 days ago arguing that this shouldn’t be allowed. while i agree in principle, i believe we are way past the rubicon now. very quickly, amidst the ai

On speed vs quality

We were discussing product delivery in a meeting earlier today where Shola, my cofounder, touched on something interesting about speed versus quality - that classic argument about tradeoffs in project execution. His take was fundamentally different, and it got me thinking. This is it, paraphrased. Quality is inherent. Speed is

You shall not pass!

Eyowo was a service that made it easy for people to accept payments online. Its appeal, and primary unique selling point at the time was that it managed to consolidate the various possible means of electronic payments run by different companies into one interface. This greatly reduced the barrier of