Tag: 2026
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The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who…
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Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer (2021)
A few years ago, a data engineer on r/ExperiencedDevs got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years of engineering. The original account is deleted, but the post captures something real — the kind of honesty you only get after a few glasses of wine. Preserving it here, typos and all. I’m drunk and I’ll…
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The Weaponization of Ugliness: Why Beauty is the Ultimate Resistance
by https://x.com/BrivaelFr adapted from French to English using Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Communist ideology breeds ugliness. It’s not a side effect, it’s in its DNA. Let me explain. This ugliness isn’t an accident. It’s not a lack of budget. It’s not incompetence. It’s a weapon. And the Soviet regime deployed it with surgical precision for…
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Musk: Work will be a Hobby
I can only conclude that Musk’s “Contribution to Consumption Ratio” was a temporary aspiration of his. This is the new motto: People will be absolutely consumption-prone and will forget what work truly meant as a contribution in the past.
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Dune Part III (expectations)
I finished re-reading the second book of the Dune Chronicles, Messiah, last night and I have mixed feelings about the coming movie “Dune Part III” later this year. I have seen its trailer on YouTube and some cuts from interviews with Denis Villeneuve claiming with all the words that part 3 is the zenith, the…
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Deep Learning and Fertility
by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X.com in 20260406 “Two things are important right now in life: deep learning and fertility. Everything else is noise. We are only starting to glimpse what these two forces will do to global life over the next fifty years. And they interact: deep learning will reshape demographics, and demographic collapse will…
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The Mythical Man-Month (book)
I started reading this book by accident after finding about its existence in discussion thread on X. The title itself didn’t ring any bells to me at first look, but I decided to get it and read its introduction to get a better sense of what the book was about. At the moment of this…
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My “Agent First” LinkedIn Profile
Since LinkedIn is now a bot parede, I have adjusted the About section of my profile page to be “Agent First” with only binary code. The few humans left in that network who still read anything will find it weird or nonsensical, but Agents will be just fine. 01001000 01101001 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110…
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His Secret Sauce
His secret sauce is people, not money. It’s finding the best talent, attracting it and retaining it. Then, success comes from molding corporate culture to accommodate that talent so it can bring value through inovation.