Blog and essays

2026

• 10/26 The shape of thought: the gap between words and understanding
• 10/20 The price of understanding: what is engineering for?
• 10/10 Sold twice: a life kept in working order
• 09/27 Fatal strategies: the half-life of fortune and the gradient of complexity
• 09/14 zzHELP: a dispatch from inside the swarm
• 09/13 Should you buy a home with a box spread?
• 08/23 Bull herding and bullshitting: why judgment matters more than intelligence, models, or machines
• 08/02 The financial clinic: interaction engineering in financial services
• 06/30 LLM internals specimen sheet
• 06/21 The Bauhütte Standard: reality before loyalty
• 06/20 Co-Brain: l’approche de la mer and why agi may never emerge from llms
• 06/14 Tax-loss harvesting is NP-complete
• 06/05 Deep persuasion: grokking, storehouse, and weights
• 05/25 Hiring against the room
• 05/23 Bend the chimney; move the firewood
• 05/16 Worse is better and the right thing
• 05/09 Good companies and good-looking companies: lost dimensions of work
• 05/02 Cognitive resignation: llms and the hollowing of expertise
• 04/10 How much customization is enough?: who a financial platform should serve

2025

• 12/21 Financial advisory and portfolio management: reflections from practice
• 12/07 Understanding long and short margin mechanics
• 11/17 Deep learning at scale: lessons from experiments on perlmutter
• 11/16 GPU programming for exascale: multi-node and multi-gpu strategies
• 11/07 From bricolage to engineering: regularizing complexity
• 10/27 When a word opens
• 10/10 Bayesian deep learning: uncertainty, inductive bias, and modern theory
• 06/07 Selling modern financial products: comparing smas, saas, and asset management
• 05/30 From physical toil to cognitive burnout: modern labor and the ethics of software design
• 05/24 Internal states, external worlds: concurrency, consensus, and sociotechnical challenges in computing
• 05/17 Engineering speak: prolegomena to ideal technical discourses
• 05/10 Self-healing computation: building resilient financial computational services
• 05/02 Cognitive mirror: how llms compress language and challenge our sense of self
• 04/12 Basis trade and treasury deleveraging
• 04/01 The Triffin dilemma and the exorbitant privilege
• 03/01 Client-side connection pool management

2024

• 04/14 Zoo keeping: dynamic assembly from subclass attributes
• 04/09 Go getters: a monadic way
• 04/06 Take a walk on the functional side: yes, we need monads
• 04/01 Working with distributed workers
• 03/27 Cooperative concurrency with FastAPI: it's the generators, stupid
• 03/19 Wrapping around wrappers: primer on decorators

2021

• 10/21 Simple SSL-based encryption