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“One thing you do learn with flying is, when you’re off course a little bit, my instructor always said ‘small adjustments normalize the situation,’ ” Carlisle says. “In basketball, life and basketball coaching, small adjustments and normalizing the situation as much as possible have a lot to do with problem solving.”
leadership and
People with more power often underestimate how much their formal authority amplifies their actions, while people less power often hold simplified views of power, and underestimate their agency.
X: "I don’t understand why they’re waiting for me to weigh in—it’s like they can’t move without my approval, even on the... See more
John Cutlersubstack.com
If you are looking for something to read/study this weekend, I added lots of LLM-related bonus from-scratch coding resources over the last few months (from implementing Llama 3.2 to preference tuning with DPO): https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch?tab=readme-ov-file#bonus-material
I hope you find them useful! (My... See more
Sebastian Raschkasubstack.comHow to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others
Andrej Karpathyx.comDecisions at all stages of the life cycle—from architectural design to coding and implementation and testing—affect system quality. Therefore, quality is not completely a function of an architectural design. But that’s where it starts.
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
The Most Beginner-Friendly AI Agent Resources I’ve Seen This Year:
Here’s the breakdown:
👉 Rule #1: Define the Agent Before You Build One
Most confuse agents with chatbots that call tools
Chip Huyen’s explains the... See more
Paolo Perronesubstack.comStrategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It’s about deliberately choosing to be different. —Michael Porter
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Because of how easy the Neon software is to use via API, it was becoming a popular way for AI agents building apps to get a database going. There’s no human in this loop: someone asked an agent to build an app (potentially using Neon), and the agent autonomously spun up a Neon database to power the app. This, in my mind clearly, is the future of
... See moreagentic and age-of-agents