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Looking at the stars

Sit-and-rise progress

Moving from Evals to Eval Loops

New Zealand – a few reflections

Energy as Technology in 2026 – a few reflections

Kind lies and unkind truths

Unique and alone

Reality doesn’t care if you agree

How Will the Miracle Happen Today?

Stimulus and response

Understanding your gut

Reactions to stimulus

Emotions, institutions, technology

Expected and bonus

Pericles and Athena

The three AI bets

Regret and shots

Dashboard or pipes?

Over-engineered

Lakes and people

Planetarium perspective

Rabbits, stoats and second order consequences

Opposite sides before the trenches

What I’ll take with me from 2025

What I want to leave behind in 2025

The plums no one saw

What’s your legacy?

Fall in love with your new reality

Everything will go south

Take with you, and leave behind

10 questions – Annual Reflection 2025

Peripheral roles

Curing autoimmune diseases

No one wanted to get involved

The Monks in the Casino

Reference check follow up – the question

Tell your users what changed

Signing on the dotted line

Velocity, then speed – without haste

Teacher models and the demo-to-production gap

Half-hearted engagement

The graduate program and meritocracy

Don’t skip that reference check

To always be the opposite

To get what you want

Occam’s razor x biology retrospective

Just because you can

Ascribing Intent

Giving a damn about the customer experience

Lin-Manuel on both sides

Exponential curves

What it feels like

Why me and why now

Action and clarity

Warren Buffett’s letter – Thanksgiving 2025

All it takes is for one to work out

Rhyme or reason

Finding what you’re looking for

How you like or dislike an idea

Infinitely easier to review and critique

Things that were once hard

Do it wrong – intentionally

Soreness as a feature

Social Print paper

Lessons from MasterChef

The Job Has Changed

A massive jigsaw puzzle

Knowing how to say no

Answer to conundrums

Body clock sync

The validation trap

Making the most of your gifts

Architecture and how it defines us

Making career decisions

A notch down on VO2 Max

Consumption and doing stuff

Action shows you what is real

Spend less than you earn

Whose cup are you filling

Arsene on Spurs

Floss before brushing

Everything is television

Avoiding email scams – 3 tell-tale scams

When you invest your love

The Empty Quarter

Wins and character

Fueling the outcome, not the conflict

Sickness and culmination

Maintenance and showing up

One step at a time

If you get the chance

The Power Tech stack

Caring about an idea

Horizons of clarity

AI isn’t replacing radiologists

Life changing appreciation

Luckier than we realize

None of your business

Dancing vs. emailing

3 reflections on careers – for high school students

Oceans – Sir David Attenborough

AI wave – the what and the how

Stats on professional fighting

Fooling yourself

Transcribing audio

Junk in the pantry

Electric shock vs. reflection

Virality and extreme views

New parent talk