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A few weeks ago, my longstanding friend and colleague Curt Cunning mentioned to me that he was slogging through Nietzsche, which bespeaks his incredible will to power through things that are unpleasant (one of the many things that makes him an exceptional engineer). In any case, it lead me to revisit some of his work (Nietzsche’s, not Curt’s. Curt’s work is the opposite of a…
Internet culture, and by extension modern popular culture, has developed a very strange relationship with science. There is simultaneously a stronger-than-ever desire for “rational thinking” and consensus-driven mental models, and a virulent, anti-intellectual impatience for things unknown. People want to just have the answers to things they believe that, given the pace of human…
Heya, I’m Haris. I’ve been working in and around software for about 15 years. This site is a place to dump all the stuff I have swimming in my head. Things I talk about: Engineering Strategy Distributed Systems Teaching, mentorship, and paying it forward Screaming at the tides - random tirades against things I’m too dumb or old to understand I’m currently employed as a…