It's easy to be lazy, but you also need to be smart about it ...
In 2011 Rich Hickey in his seminal talk "Simple made easy" defined the distinction between Easy and Simple. Easy is something that is approachable, can be done quickly and without effort. Simple, on the other hand, is something that is not convoluted, something clean and straightforward. It's sometimes very difficult to make something simple. The raise of generative AI pushed this concept even…
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There are two kinds of financial bubbles. Inflection bubbles are useful, they allow unrestricted flow of capital to fund progress, like the dot com bubble which built the infrastructure underlying current internet. Inflection bubbles always grow on technological innovation. Greed bubbles, like the subprime mortgage bubble, are not fueled by ideas or progress, but rather by the desire to earn as…
This is, arguably, the most interesting post on this blog.