SELF AWARENESS · PSYCHOLOGY · SYSTEMS
Borrowed Tears: How a Suppressed Emotion Finds Another Body to Cry In
My therapist teared up mid-session and asked whose tears they were. Sixty years of research says they were mine.
Systems
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AI · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS
The Literature Already Knew: Why 4-Bit Quants Tie and Thinking Budgets Bite
The research on LLM quantization and test-time compute makes two clear predictions. A 67-hour, 4,800-task benchmark of Qwen3.8-27B just confirmed both.
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PSYCHOLOGY · BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS
The Sandbox Behind Your Eyes: Why No Two People See the Same Reality
Your brain does not record the world. It simulates one. And the smartest people are not the ones running the truest simulation.
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PSYCHOLOGY · SELF AWARENESS · SYSTEMS
You Are Not Focused. You Are Overfit.
The two ways to raise signal over noise look identical inside the room. They diverge violently the moment you leave it.
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PSYCHOLOGY · SYSTEMS · AI
Your Past Self Has Nothing to Teach You
Life is neither optimization nor noise. What transfers across life's non-repeating cycles is not the policy but the learner.
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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · FINTECH · PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
Hyperbolic Discounting Is Why Fintech Apps Are Designed Against Their Users
Present bias as the operating model of buy-now-pay-later, credit cards, and trading apps.
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ATTENTION · MEETINGS · SYSTEMS
Channel Capacity Is the Real Reason Your Org Is Slow
Shannon's limit applied to standups, Slack, and review cycles. The bit-rate of management.
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DECISIONS · NETWORKS · SYSTEMS
Phantom Traffic Jams Are Not About Traffic. They're About Delay.
Why a fractional second of unnecessary braking can collapse a highway, and why the same physics governs supply chains and packet networks.
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AI · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS · NOTE
AI Execution Trap: The Rise of the Third Kind of Work
AI collapses Russell's two kinds of work into a third. The bottleneck shifts from execution to judgment, and the value of pure execution falls toward zero.
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PRODUCT · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS · NOTE
Playing to Win: Game Theory for Product Managers
A PM primer on game theory - payoff matrices, the Prisoner's Dilemma, coordination, signaling, and mechanism design, with examples from PayPal, Uber, and Slack.
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PRODUCT · AI · SYSTEMS · NOTE
From Data-Driven to Data-Native: A Practical Roadmap for Product Leaders
Ten pain points product managers hit on the way to data-native thinking, with case studies from Netflix, Uber, Stripe, Spotify, and others.
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PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
The Ripple Effect in Products
How small product choices trigger monumental shifts in design: psychology, math, and UX of the ripple effect.