Writing about systems, decision-making, and finding your way.
Financial products, as a general rule, are weird and unintuitive. The main reason is that what is being sold is money . To pay money for money feels weird. Moreover, these arrangements appear very zero-sum. If a company is making a lot of profit from selling money, surely the customer is being taken advantage of? It is hard to intuitively understand how it can be good for both parties to sell a…
This is a concise, actionable guide of how to set up and use Claude Code as a power user. I’ve collated this advice from a bunch of different external sources (documentation, @bcherny, other tech blogs), as well as my own usage. This guide is kept intentionally brief – to dive deeper into any specifics, follow the relevant links. Guiding principle The single insight that drives all the advice…
A follow-up to On being lost . The initial reaction to being lost is often to cling to what you know to be true. Thereby establishing what you do not. To frame the search. To break it down into questions, sub-questions and methodically go to answer them. Here this instinct is counterproductive. The time and place for the imposition for structure will come, but it comes later. There is no universal…
There is this pressure to know what you’re doing. To have purpose, direction. To know what you’re working towards. What you care about. To be driven. There’s a reason it is idealised. Being in that state is fantastic. You have clarity. Your movements are filled with purpose. It feels like rhapsody. The greatest of works are created. But when lost, attempting to force this state is the worst…
It’s a common experience to set yourself a goal and look back months later and find that you haven’t made much progress at all. You feel like you’ve been trying, but it just hasn’t happened – you’ve procrastinated, felt unmotivated, gotten distracted – a ton of reasons. You realise this, resolve to try again, only to find yourself at that same point once more – you feel trapped in a cycle of…
My first job out of university was at a mid-size strategy consulting firm in London, where I spent two years. Understandably, the most common question I was asked by my family and friends was: what do you actually do ? I’d usually attempt to answer by describing the tasks that made up my day – writing notes for expert interviews, doing competitor research, market modelling, etc. But I felt like I…